Meta Tags a thing of the past?

frankc · 06-18-2007, 05:07 PM

Is it true, that what matters the most these days is your title tag as well as your page content, meta tags not really being part of the equation anymore? Well at least for major spiders such as Google’s?

C'est La Vie

**Cricket** · 06-18-2007, 05:32 PM

Here is a recent thread that may help you decide.
http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...-keywords.html

noli1985 · 06-18-2007, 08:31 PM

still using meta tags this days

King Justice · 06-18-2007, 08:52 PM

Boy, you crazy. You can believe what you want. The fact of the matter is that today's technology, yes, meta tags aren't necessary to be indexed, but they are still required for great search engine placements and inclusion relavency.

Face it, without the meta description and title tag, your site can fall into any subject category within the search engine's index. I've seen it happen in Google many of times..

Just put meta tags up. It doesn't hurt, it just helps.

Though, if you don't want to, you don't to: less competition for all of us in your niche.

docquesting · 06-18-2007, 09:04 PM

Agreed. I almost got banned on another forum for calling an adviser a chicken for not standing up to a challenge regarding that.

frankc · 06-18-2007, 09:49 PM

Thanx Guys...

I suspected that, brought up a new Linux ES3 hosted e-commerce site three weeks ago, manually added it to ODP and bingo on page 1 and 2 for relevant search phrases but all I was doing was adding product data, descriptions, text, pics, grunt-work. Been busy fishing, riding out sour winter pastured horses, and getting the garden in and planned on going back and doing the behind the scenes but

Oh well makes life easier I suppose..in the Long Run. But I will go ahead and add the tags for now since one conceited fish feeds off another older fat fish

(Inktomi) Just to be safe..and go fishing again...

Thanx
Frank
Texas

francesca_l0uise · 06-19-2007, 02:31 AM

I think its still advisable to used meta tags because it helps in terms of indexing..

Ar3d · 06-19-2007, 04:23 AM

well for MSN they still consider meta tags for weighting the site, and i still do that for my site..

Janna122003 · 06-19-2007, 10:49 AM

Some search engine still give value to meta tags.

charlesgan · 06-19-2007, 11:29 AM

as i found out, playing with meta. does effect the ranking in google and yahoo.
you might need to do it right.

tdd1984 · 06-19-2007, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankc

Is it true, that what matters the most these days is your title tag as well as your page content, meta tags not really being part of the equation anymore? Well at least for major spiders such as Google’s?

C'est La Vie

once again to many people seo is not so much about "content optimization", it is about links, links are what rank you

(content optimization has very little effect on seo compared to links)

coolguy27 · 06-21-2007, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankc

Is it true, that what matters the most these days is your title tag as well as your page content, meta tags not really being part of the equation anymore? Well at least for major spiders such as Google’s?

C'est La Vie

MSN today still uses meta tags as their factor in ranking.....

dburr99 · 06-21-2007, 09:41 PM

I personally would use them, along with any other "does this code matter" ideas, until Google, MSN and the other big kids specifically say it will penalize you.

frankc · 06-21-2007, 09:51 PM

I appreciate all ya'lls feedback, and yes that is how we talk here in the heart of Texas

And like an ole junkie, I will stick to the tags, "better safe than sorry" but it is cool that things are loosening up a little...

"Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this".
Sigmund Freud

Nima · 06-21-2007, 11:13 PM

in my experience, Title tags (mostly H1) are much more important in terms of SEO. However some SEs like Yahoo still put considerable weigh on meta tags...

and doing both doesnt hurt so why not

sheena · 06-22-2007, 12:21 AM

We still using meta tags in optimizing a website

Cornbread · 06-22-2007, 08:11 AM

The Meta description will still provide you with a good snippet in the search results so you should still use them, but the meta keywords is not needed anymore. The search engines pull the key words from your text and don't use the meta key word list anymore.

dcristo · 06-22-2007, 10:11 AM

A good meta description will never be a thing of the past.

Cornbread · 06-22-2007, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by dcristo

A good meta description will never be a thing of the past.

I wouldn't say never, Google gives it very little authority as it is. Most of the snippets that come next to my listings in Google are pulled directly from the text from the content anyway. The content is far more important than the meta tags. For years meta tags have been used to try and manipulate search engines and Google has gotten to the point that they don't give them (meta tags) much more than a passing glance.

dcristo · 06-22-2007, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Cornbread

I wouldn't say never, Google gives it very little authority as it is. Most of the snippets that come next to my listings in Google are pulled directly from the text from the content anyway. The content is far more important than the meta tags. For years meta tags have been used to try and manipulate search engines and Google has gotten to the point that they don't give them (meta tags) much more than a passing glance.

I am referring to writing compelling meta description copy to get the clicks.