SEO Tycoon

**amultani** · 09-24-2011, 08:14 AM

do meta tags help us in seo side ?

**chrishirst** · 09-24-2011, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by amultani

do meta tags help us in seo side ?

READ the entire thread!!!!!!!!!!!!

**chrishirst** · 09-24-2011, 08:48 AM

Or maybe read this one http://tycoontalk.freelancer.com/the...meta-tags.html or http://webmaster-talk.eu/?action=art...view;article=6

There is no shortage of threads on meta tags/elements pointing out their use should you actually look or you could even use the forum search feature, it does work.

**peeping4dsun** · 09-26-2011, 09:30 AM

I still believe that after people realise the true value of mata tags and stop spamming it, Google will consider it once again

**chrishirst** · 09-26-2011, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by peeping4dsun

I still believe that after people realise the true value of mata tags and stop spamming it, Google will consider it once again

Why???
Assuming that you are referring to the meta keywords element and not to ALL meta tags/elements, they (Google) have not needed or wanted to use the meta KEYWORDS element in over ten years so why should they start now or in the future.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...-meta-tag.html

There are of corse many other meta elements that are being used by search engines.

**SBSeo** · 09-26-2011, 06:12 PM

Try to vary the meta tags a little bit atleast, because Google really doesn't care or weight meta tags worth *** anymore. BUT, if your spamming a ton of duplicate titles/tags/descriptions, you could see a negative results with no positives lol. Keep em natural and relevant to the page, don't spam.

**Thomas Clark** · 09-30-2011, 02:02 AM

ask him to stay away. this is what happen all the times, If they know some sort of things and shouting this is good this is good. don't waste your time searching proofs .

**expo09** · 09-30-2011, 01:05 PM

The title tag is now the only important meta tag for SEO. The description tag is often displayed on the results pages so can be used for branding or encouraging searches to click on your site.

The keyword tag has no use.

**chrishirst** · 09-30-2011, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by expo09

The title tag is now the only important meta tag for SEO.

The title element is NOT a meta element:

I'll repeat that NOT a meta element:

**vultren** · 10-01-2011, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by expo09

The keyword tag has no use.

This is wrong too.

Nice post.

**kline11** · 01-27-2012, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by brianman

Ok guys. Here's one for you. I have a client that wants ( demands ) that I put every keyword we're targeting into his meta tags on every page. I'm trying to explain how meta tags work. But, I'm struggling to find proof or an article that accurately explains why we need meta tags.

I know that I have sites on page one for Google that don't even have meta tags. So, I know you don't need them to be on page one. I also know that you do need them to at least give Google a guide as to what to present in the SERP ( ie: description ).

Any thoughts and/or resources from you all would be great. Thanks!

Do what they want. SE's ignore most meta data anyway. You should only care about the TITLE TAG and description meta tag (for the users displayed in SERPs, not ranking).

**vultren** · 01-29-2012, 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by kline11

Do what they want. SE's ignore most meta data anyway. You should only care about the TITLE TAG and description meta tag (for the users displayed in SERPs, not ranking).

That doesn't mean it's not important to have the meta tags. They are used for other purposes from time to time.

**brandonbuttars** · 01-29-2012, 01:50 PM

Just say, if we post the meta keywords your competition will know exactly what keywords you want to rank for making it easier for them to track your seo activities. Just thought I'd throw in my two cents. Notice two cents ain't a lot but but it will make a dollar out of ninety eight sense.

**kline11** · 01-29-2012, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by vultren

That doesn't mean it's not important to have the meta tags. They are used for other purposes from time to time.

Yes there are other useful Meta Tags for other purposes. I'm referring to his "battle" with his clients is concerned.

**johnvaghela1988** · 01-30-2012, 03:22 AM

Keyword Meta tag is not crawl of any search engine.

**chrishirst** · 01-30-2012, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by johnvaghela1988

Keyword Meta tag is not crawl of any search engine.

Actually you are completely wrong there! The whole document, including any meta information is read by the crawlers.

**Fondsguru** · 02-13-2012, 09:21 AM

From my own experience with several websites, I can only confirm that Meta-Optimization can affect the search engine results, but I would not go so far to say that Metas alone could do that. It is always a combination of all onpage and offpage SEO activities.

Metas allow crawlers to categorize a website and to compare if the following content matches with the Metas. If the data matches there is a high relevance.

Many websites such as forums and blogs use CMS that handle thousands of pages. An optimization of the Metas would require that each page receives individual Meta-Keywords, Descriptions etc.

Although there are a few Meta Generators and php- Scripts to do that, most aren´t really good. Hence it has to be done manually to be efficient.

Therefore each time I write a new webarticle, I also spend time to create individual Meta-Keywords, Descriptions, etc. Does not take so long, a few minutes, but if you have plenty thousand pages, the accumulated time requirement is a lot.

The result is that my sites receive usually good positions for the keywords or search phrases even without many incoming links. But from my point of view is the content of a page more important than the Meta-Structure.