Meta Tag Considerations

[roxxy]

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.

[megri]

Get more info on meta tags here (http://www.submitshop.com/metatags/metatags.html)

[roxxy]

Thanks for the site

[suzane]

Meta tags have never been a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines. Today, the most valuable feature they offer the web site owner is the ability to control to some degree how their web pages are described by some search engines. According to me, now a days search engines do not consider meta tags as a important factor. But if meta tags are used in proper position then it can be helpful to increase the traffic.

[megri]

Here is an article (http://www.indiabook.com/articles/)on death of meta tags
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2165061

Are Meta Tags (http://www.submitshop.com/articles/Meta_Tags/) Dead in Google?

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/28606.htm

I think MSN (http://search.msn.com) still giving some weight

[roxxy]

Thanks for the article