* The description tag may be used to display along with a page's title.
* Neither description nor keywords meta tag have much impact for SEO.
Personally, I don't use the keyword meta tag and I may or may not use the description meta tag.
Somewhere out there, there is a search engine that still uses keyword tags for something significant, but I doubt that search engine is Bing (which now powers itself and US/Canada Yahoo).
Yes. Google will (sometimes?) display what you put into <meta name="description" content="here" /> as abstract on the search results page. This makes it very easy to optimise what people see on there instead of making Google guess what to show.
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Pages have Appropriate Meta Tags.
Serious question. Does this have any impact anymore?
To answer you question directly, yes.
In a nutshell,
* The keywords meta tag is no longer used.
* The robots meta tag is extremely useful.
* The description tag may be used to display along with a page's title.
* Neither description nor keywords meta tag have much impact for SEO.
Personally, I don't use the keyword meta tag and I may or may not use the description meta tag.
Somewhere out there, there is a search engine that still uses keyword tags for something significant, but I doubt that search engine is Bing (which now powers itself and US/Canada Yahoo).
References:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-do...
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-search-no-longer-uses-meta...
Thank you for the informed reply. I appreciate it.
Yes. Google will (sometimes?) display what you put into <meta name="description" content="here" /> as abstract on the search results page. This makes it very easy to optimise what people see on there instead of making Google guess what to show.