Though most largest search engines do not 'spider' the keyword Meta Tags on your page, and in some cases ignore these completely, the use of Meta Tags on your page still serves an important purpose. There are literally hundreds, even thousands of smaller search engines scattered all across the Internet. Whilst the bigger engines tend to 'spider' whole pages instead and obtain their results from that, these smaller search engines don't have as much physical space to work with and must do things differently. It is in these particular engines you will find that Meta Tags are still very important.
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Jump to PostOk, fair is fair. :p I thought it was implied (by the usage of the words "I think" and "My 2 cents" that my statements were opinion). Since empircal evidence for SEO algorithims is difficult to provide since the algos themselves are proprietary in nature. Please correct my previous post …
Jump to PostThe one thing anyone who has been doing SEO for a while knows (and I hate that phrase "doing SEO") is that a website with good content ultimately ranks well for the phrases it chooses to rank well for. Why? Because good content by its very nature is what the …
Jump to PostI agree that unique page meta tags are important. Is it true, though, that Google doesn't follow them at all anymore?
Jump to PostUsing meta-tags is still a good practice, the Title tag being the most important to the ranking of the page. Sites that have the same meta-tags on each page are most likely not getting ranked for all their pages like they could. Unique content on each page is key of …
Jump to PostI agree that unique page meta tags are important. Is it true, though, that Google doesn't follow them at all anymore?
This is correct. They, like MSN, will use your meta description tag if you tell them to or lack a DMOZ listing. But the meta tags play no role …
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