Meta tags

[Nick R]

I know that meta tags and descriptions have no effect on your actual optimization and ranking (at least with Google), but they do indeed control the descriptive text in the Search results in Google.

Do you guys take time to devise a relevant and accurate meta description and set of keywords?

[Sarahlee]

Nope, sure don't...I typically just forgot to or it just hasn't shown much of a result for me to give that extra bit of effort into it, honestly.

[Jessicasen]

Normally i am not focusing on meta for my site. I am just working on content of my site. And it works a lot.

[kbeus21]

If possible and sounds good i put the keywords into my description at maximum with two repetitions. Usually I just try to make the description sound appealing as possible so when it shows up the searcher is more likely to click on my site rather than others.

[zeruel]

I still implement it on my sites as far as I am free to do so. It is still part of the On-page optimization. And obviously, there's no harm on putting that up right? You'll never know if it can help you out in a way.

[Destinyx3]

I still implement Meta Tags on my websites. It serves a good purpose though it is not highly counted for.

[bongski]

Albeit many do say meta tags have no weight anymore when it comes to SEO, I still implement them anyways. In fact I installed a wp plug in that takes care of my blogs' meta tags.

[webopius]

Just meta description for me - mostly for the search results. Content is the critical element within a structured page hierarchy: title, description, h1, h2 etc.

[roshandark]

i always keep in mind meta tag descriptions . [MENTAL]met tag[/MENTAL]

[shravanmishra04]

I think it would be now just flushing your time to make meta tags for every posts on my blog.

[meanne2007]

meta tags are important to me. Especially with the title tag, it is the text that first seen by the visitors when they search a particular websites.

[samlko]

Descriptions is important in a marketing aspect as sometimes it is the description of your search results entry. It should include marketing text which will convince the surfers to enter your site.

[PromoJunkie]

I do change meta tags sometimes, that is when I remember we got something like that. Mostly I emphasize on the webpage content.

[magnusd12]

i use meta tag for add search engine keywords.I think it will help my website ranking.

[daganet]

Hi, keywords is not importan!

[Nick R]

Hi, keywords is not importan!

That doesn't mean it isn't worth adding them to your pages.

[techno]

I believe Meta title is important on how your website is ranked the search engines, the search engines use this title and internet searches will refer to this title. Importantly, the Meta title will be underlined in the search results. The title tags is very important, most search engines use this in their search results and this is your first sales pitch to draw in the potential customer.

[Mousee]

Meta title and meta description are very important but meta keywords are not so as Google doesn't take them into consideration.

[icjackson]

Google is not God!

Meta descriptions appeal to humans because they appear in search engine results, and your meta description may be what makes a searcher decide to click on your url instead of someone else's.

I think that makes them pretty important regardless of how much weight they hold in Google's algorithm.

[kkkrisss]

I think Meta description is very important. I always pay attention to it when optimizing my websites.

[stevendennis]

i use meta tag,if not affect search engine ranking anymore it still show in your site result snippet in serps

[evans47]

No major search engine requires Titles or Meta Tags. However, when properly constructed, Titles & Meta Tags can boost your search engine traffic. Because of this, it is highly recommended you provide "search engine friendly" Title & Meta Tags on all your Web pages.

[chatterbox]

Meta tags are quite important and have not to be excluded while coding a page. I make it a point to include meta tags in all headers for better SEO. Though time consuming, it can give you that extra bit of visitors at times..

[kikz]

The Meta tag in html is not a required tag when you're creating your web pages; many pages don't use the tag at all, and I must confess that I've not used it on my home page, although I put it into this page by way of demonstration. To put it briefly, the meta tag is used by search engines to allow them to more accurately list your site in their indexes. Sometimes.
If you simply produce your home page and register the URL with a search engine, or a number of search engines, their spider programmes will (eventually) toddle along to your site to index it. Now, each of the search engines does this slightly differently. Altavista for example will grab everything in your document and index it, but will only show the first 250 characters in its description. Consequently, if your site included say, 'Thanks to:....' right at the beginning, this is what Altavista would show in its description, and it wouldn't give the viewer any idea of what your site actually covered. Of course, not all search engines work this way; I'd suggest you ferret around a little bit to see exactly how the popular engines work, and certainly the major two or three such as Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, Infoseek and Excite. It therefore makes sense to ensure that your opening paragraph is carefully written to ensure it accurately reflects what your site covers.

[juliya]

Some search engines do still use the meta tags and titles in a variety of really important ways. For example, the title and description used for your site’s listing display on search engine results pages is often derived from a combination of the description tag, the title tag, and the first few words of the first paragraph. A well written, well defined description can compel searchers to click through and override googles algorithm which will provide content snippets when your document description is not relevant to the actual content on the site. So while many of the tags no longer influence ranking, they certainly do have an influence when it comes to drawing the visitor’s click.

[TRDK]

Meta title and meta description are important.

[zyke]

Although Meta Tags are seem to be useless, I'm still using META tags because I believe it still helps, that's why most of the sites have METAs.

[riderbabygurl]

Most search engines do not read the Meta Keywords Tag anymore. It is okay to ignore the Meta Keywords Tags. However, if you feel more comfortable using it, you can have about 15 important non-repetitive keywords in this Tag, separated by commas.

[forum2post]

you should use single meta tags only. this is good jobs for seo.

[ronaldco]

there are two types of SEO.on page and off page and meta tags are important for both of SEO.
This way your website will rank high in google.

[lexdino]

I dont focus too much on my Meta tags, but I added a meta description to 2 of my sites and sitting down to write an accurate Meta description wasn't the issue, i just used Google to search for my keywords and then picked some catchy phrases, edited it and used it for my meta description.
That was it.

[John La]

I know that meta tags and descriptions have no effect on your actual optimization and ranking (at least with Google), but they do indeed control the descriptive text in the Search results in Google.

Do you guys take time to devise a relevant and accurate meta description and set of keywords?

Yes, giving your site a proper meta tags and descriptions can give it a footer in the search engine results. For me, it is still necessary.

[Web Gazelle]

I do take the time to optimize meta descriptions. A good meta description can influence a person clicking your site link in the search results or just skipping to the next one.

[Dan Schulz]

I do take the time to optimize meta descriptions. A good meta description can influence a person clicking your site link in the search results or just skipping to the next one.

Especially one that's well written and compels the reader with an explicit (yet well placed) call to action.

[pauly99]

I think that meta and content/keywords are both important in regards to SEO.

[joker]

the use of meta tags on Google is said to be useless and does not affect the search engine rankings, unlike on Yahoo, meta tags play a big role for rankings.

Anyway, Meta description serves as a snippet on SERP so it is still good to use meta tags.

[soccerphobia]

Meta tags is heart and soul for search engine optimization.

[Dan Schulz]

Meta tags is heart and soul for search engine optimization.

Actually they're not. Great keyword-rich content that is highly relevant and targeted to a specific user base and great incoming links are the heart and soul of SEO.

[kikz]

Most search engines do not read the Meta Keywords Tag anymore. It is okay to ignore the Meta Keywords Tags. However, if you feel more comfortable using it, you can have about 15 important non-repetitive keywords in this Tag, separated by commas.

Ohhhh COOL

[mafuz62]

Meta tags are HTML codes that are inserted into the header on a web page, after the title tag. In the context of search engine optimization, when people refer to meta tags, they are usually referring to the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag.