For me Meta tags are still important based on my own experience... It cannot harm your site on putting metas. But in a log run you must have to get IBL to rank.
keywords in meta tags are still importants maybe not too importants for google but for other search engines they are still importants. Besides I think meta description is very important for all search engines.
Meta keyword tags are still useful for some of the major search engines. I have heard that yahoo takes more notice of them. It cant hurt to put them in after all!
Based on my experience meta description and meta keywords still help one of my site that I'm optimizing has no meta description and meta keywords for 6 months while building links and when I add meta it started to rank on search engine.
Completing the meta description tag is vital because it is the contents of that tag that are used by some search engines in the summary for your website that appears in their results pages. If you don't have a meta description tag, the search engines have to compile their own entry for you and that can produce awful results. http://www.seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/description.asp
They still work and actually as long as you match them to your content without going overboard they will ..help you find your keywords and what to look for, we took a site that was just built and had it on 31 for its local area and with the keywords and meta tags we couldnt have done it.. we still use meta and kw and organic..
even if they are less important, I still would not stop using them. They are good for just advertising and highlighting an area of your site. for example: click here to enlarge. their cool to have regardless.
I think that content,title,meta description and mata keywords are the most powerful SEO,more powerful even then many quality links.The content is King!!!
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keyword saturation is a large amount of meta-tag relevancy- provide a reasonable amount of traffic coming into your webpages or certain well optimized search engine targeted website. Meta-data for search engines is a culprit of Google Yahoo and MSN search engine's
I had a similar discussion to this with someone earlier today, and yes, I would always meta tag, it is a fallacy that meta tags are no longer useful, although now, traffic does seem to be more to do with quality back links than anything else.
I am fully with your opinion .. Yahoo's search engine for example, still relies on Meta crown on the top of the page either, I think Google does not tell much Just a thought ahmed