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**PickleWabbit** · 05-19-2011, 02:30 PM

Hello,

Can anyone please explain what meta tag is?

Are all search engine crawlers look for it and use it?

Is it helpful in terms of page rank?

How does it generates page views?

Different websites say different views so I'm hoping to get real answers. I appreciate your inputs. Thanks

**Digital Friend** · 05-19-2011, 03:34 PM

Spammers used meta tags to attempt to trick search engines into giving 'em a better SERP, so now, most search engines ignores most meta tags.

**kline11** · 05-19-2011, 03:43 PM

The only important tag you need is the TITLE tag.

**chrishirst** · 05-20-2011, 12:55 PM

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Can anyone please explain what meta tag is?

HTML Code:

<meta name="something" content="something else" >

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Are all search engine crawlers look for it and use it?

Some meta ELEMENTS are used the majority are NOT

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Is it helpful in terms of page rank?

Nope

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How does it generates page views?

It doesn't

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Different websites say different views so I'm hoping to get real answers.

Mostly by clueless halfwits from some backwater country where they still think it's 1995

**chrishirst** · 05-20-2011, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by kline11

The only important tag you need is the TITLE tag.

The title element is NOT a meta element.

**dWhite** · 05-20-2011, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

The title element is NOT a meta element.

Don't you know?

HTML Code:

<meta name="title" content="website name here">

**chrishirst** · 05-20-2011, 01:11 PM

HAH! You fell into my cunning trap there, because that would not be a title element but a meta element named "title"

Which is different kettle of coloured horses to mix a few METAphores.

**kline11** · 05-20-2011, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

The title element is NOT a meta element.

I Know, that is why I said TITLE TAG, not META TITLE...which does not exsist

**chrishirst** · 05-20-2011, 02:05 PM

The trouble is the title tags always lumped in with any "meta tag" discussion which, which leads some to believe that they ARE in the meta group of elements.

**kline11** · 05-20-2011, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

The trouble is the title tags always lumped in with any "meta tag" discussion which, which leads some to believe that they ARE in the meta group of elements.

Ahh, yes. I see.

**chrishirst** · 05-23-2011, 07:28 AM

You know it's like the last ten years never happened.

Meta elements and their uselessness was a "hot topic" in 1999, yet here we are in 2011 STILL discussing them!!!

It really does beggar belief why they are STILL being discussed. People, meta elements are NOT going to have a resurgence in popularity, leave them alone and allow them to rest in peace.

**fernades** · 05-26-2011, 04:52 AM

Meta Description is important than any other meta tags. Keyword are almost dead, no use for putting keywords in your website. Google itself doesn't looking for the meta keywords.

**Benmoore47** · 06-01-2011, 05:54 AM

Meta tags are important in SEO. We create meta tags to help our page to rank in Search engines. It is also the characters that showed up in SERPS.

**chrishirst** · 06-01-2011, 07:43 AM

Please, Please, PLEASE!!!!!!!!

Words in Meta ELEMENTS have not been a ranking factor since 1999 just forget about them! Leave them ALONE! Go and do something USEFUL instead!!!!!!!!!!!!

**dWhite** · 06-01-2011, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Please, Please, PLEASE!!!!!!!!

Words in Meta ELEMENTS have not been a ranking factor since 1999 just forget about them! Leave them ALONE! Go and do something USEFUL instead!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is like talking to a brick wall, no matter how many times you tell it something it never listens.

**arunthe** · 06-02-2011, 12:51 AM

Hi
meta tag is the most important in the SEO. So you will use properly and bold that tags.

**hotellasuite** · 06-02-2011, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by PickleWabbit

Hello,

Can anyone please explain what meta tag is?

Meta tags are some instruction and information tags for search crawl.

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Are all search engine crawlers look for it and use it?

I don't know about all but yes mejor search engines are using it

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Is it helpful in terms of page rank?

I don't think that it can be helps in PR but still it is works for increasing ranking a bit like Meta description and Meta robots, canonical tags

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How does it generates page views?

Who's know

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Different websites say different views so I'm hoping to get real answers. I appreciate your inputs. Thanks

Off course, every one has their own think of view

That was mine

**chrishirst** · 06-03-2011, 09:59 AM

there is no keywords "tag" it is a meta keywords element.

A meta tag is this

HTML Code:

<meta name="name" content="string values for information" >

Just stating that meta "tag" is useful/useless is meaningless without the context of the meta element NAME.
So! If you are going to state some "fact" about meta elements please, please, PLEASE, QUALIFY WHICH meta element you are talking about, then maybe everybody will understand which are useful and which are not, and maybe we will see an end to pointless threads like this discussing something that has NOT been a factor for over TEN years.

**Ailsalink** · 06-04-2011, 02:31 AM

I know title is not a meta tag.wherever you are using "meta" in the coding these are called meta tags.

**denysaputra** · 06-04-2011, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

The trouble is the title tags always lumped in with any "meta tag" discussion which, which leads some to believe that they ARE in the meta group of elements.

Hi, just want to know. Is add many keyword to the "meta keyword" tag and "title tag" can be considered as spam?
Thank you