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#1 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010

I have been playing with this free Meta Tag Analyzer tool.... http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html

Are Meta Tags still important for web sites?

Thank you,

#2 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010

Cool resource

Thanks for posting!

There are some search engines that are rumored *not* to attribute value to meta tags, but there are others that certainly do so my vote is to always include meta tags in SEO.

#3 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010

As long as your meta tags are more than stacking-keywords put them in. With web developers working hard to develop Web 3.0 or "The Semantic Web" specialized meta-tags are already being widely used.

#4 (**permalink**) 08-28-2010

Meta description bigtime! On Google search results the blue link text is the site's title tag then below it is the meta description text. It's one of the most important SEO attributes.

As for meta keywords, Google doesn't both with these. In the old days, when search engines were mostly crap, people used to do what's known as meta keyword stuffing, putting ridiculous amounts of keywords in so their site would show up for as many search terms as possible.

Such a situation was anathema to the Google guys, so when they arrived on the scene they decided not to apportion any importance whatsoever to meta keywords.

Yahoo used to, but stopped. Bing, who've just taken over Yahoo's search function, allegedly apportion a teensy-weensy bit of importance to them but that's all.

Other search engines too, may also apportion importance to meta keywords and whilst they may not be the biggest players on the scene (for example the aforementioned Scrub the Web) they none the less get regularly indexed by the big boys.

In the end my feeling is this, yes, meta keywords are possibly the least important aspect of SEO but you might as well add them anyway, firstly for the sake of being thorough and secondly because you've nothing to loose by adding them except maybe five to ten seconds of typing.

#5 (**permalink**) 08-28-2010

Thanks much for this information. I still want to refine my keywords to maintain the relevance to the page, mostly to keep my focus on the intent of the page. I won't fret as much about them though.

Thanks, again!

#6 (**permalink**) 08-29-2010

What a great site! Thanks for sharing.

#7 (**permalink**) 08-29-2010

It really got me working on my meta tags. But maybe you like this page too:
http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php

Regards,
melissa

#8 (**permalink**) 08-29-2010

This is also a great site for checking your page's SEO, if your title tag is too long or too short, if your meta keywords are too much, etc, etc. It will "grade" your site and also make suggestions as to how you can improve it

http://websitegrader.com/

#9 (**permalink**) 08-30-2010

I like the readability website, Melissa ~ thanks for posting it

Hubspot's Website grader is a really good resource also. My report from them is high on my priority list to dig into as my site does not get high grades ~yet~ !!