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« on: Apr 24, 2007, 10:34:48 pm »
Before a year or so, I stoped using meta tags to my sites, but it seems they still have some importance in SEO.

Right now I am using only description and in some cases keywords meta tags.

What do you use? Does anyone here made any experiment regarding meta tags?
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« Reply #1 on: Apr 24, 2007, 10:41:17 pm »
I use always this kind of header:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<title>PHP script resource, php classes and code for web developer</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="keywords" content="domain name check, whois, web developer, php classes, php scripts, MySQL, script releases, php resource, search engine source, webmaster tools, php news" />
<meta name="description" content="This PHP resource site is the place for open source projects like easy to use PHP classes, webmaster tools, web development resource links and PHP related news." />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta name="author" content="Olaf Lederer" />
<meta name="content-Language" content="en" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Dutch PHP Resource" href="http://www.finalwebsites.com/rss_sitemap_en.php" />
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« Reply #2 on: Apr 24, 2007, 11:04:45 pm »
Keywords, description, author, copyright (used to specify license not user as some people use it for)

language only in non XHTML (its already declared)

Avoid using robot, as most engines ignore this anyway, use robot.txt where possible
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2007, 11:36:27 am »
Meta tags were huge part of SEO in last few years but now major SE don't pay attention, however it is a good suggestion to have them because it helps the SE robots for instructions. The company, SEO specialist, who do seo for me also advice me to have them for better results. You can find a good free meta tags generator here.

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« Reply #4 on: Sep 16, 2008, 11:39:51 am »
I use only title tag keywords tag and description tag for my meta data.
because these are only the search engines and bots friendly tags.
they check information in title tag and then check the relevancy in description and keywords tag and at the end they check the same keywords in website content and focused keywords which are in heading tags and anchor tags.

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« Reply #5 on: Sep 20, 2008, 11:11:56 am »
While the keyword tag is beginning to become fairly useless, the description tag isn't entirely dead yet. It still enables you to control the descriptions of your pages in FAST, Teoma and some other engines. Use it and strive to write an inspiring description that draws people to your pages.
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« Reply #6 on: Sep 21, 2008, 12:18:30 pm »
description metatags are important because they show in google and many user can pay attention at your site description to click the link, keywords looks that are not used, but I always try to put them
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« Reply #7 on: Sep 25, 2008, 08:24:15 pm »
To me, it depends on the general traffic on a specific site to begin with and work around that.  I would use keywords already established on a site, but just move things around in a cleaner fashion.  The description, to me, is pretty important to.  What one writes there determines if a person is curious enough to go to the specific site, look around, click on the different inside links, and maybe even purchase the product/service the site offers.  True, it may not be as important as far as actual meta tags, but description plus a re-worked robot.txt file is the difference between 10 people going to the site/day and 100 or more
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« Reply #8 on: Oct 23, 2008, 01:45:13 am »
i always use the 3 main important metas . The title description and the keywords.
using your targeted keywords on meta title is the most important for me
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« Reply #9 on: Oct 28, 2008, 06:01:56 pm »
I use the following formula that I found in a helpful article by Jono Craig:
    * Title tag: 5 - 10 words, including the company name and relevant keywords, 90 characters with spaces
    * Description tag: Concise summary of the page, an upper limit of perhaps, 170 characters with spaces
    * Keyword tag: An upper limit of 900 characters with spaces - keep it simple and relevant. 10 - 20 Keywords per page
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« Reply #10 on: Nov 16, 2008, 09:34:29 am »
Its really confusing one as in many forums I have read that Meta tage have no importamce in these days and now Nikolas is telling that yes this is important. History is itself evident that earlier webmaster have used Meta Tags to manipulate the search engine results and hence google and big search engine stopped giving importance to them.
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« Reply #12 on: Nov 16, 2008, 02:13:50 pm »
I use meta robots and meta description. Rarely I use meta keywords, because only for Yahoo matters. Meta description is really important from users point of views, because the users click on it if they find what they are looking for.
I do optimize title tag very well too, as it is the most important factor onsite.
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« Reply #13 on: Nov 23, 2008, 05:08:16 am »
is there a wordpress plugin that works well for meta tag building?
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« Reply #14 on: Dec 13, 2008, 09:09:17 pm »
Yes, there is a Wordpress plugin (not only one). Check http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/add-meta-tags-wordpress-plugin. Hope it's useful for you.
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« Reply #15 on: Jan 04, 2009, 12:26:10 am »
I use the metas: title, keywords, description and the robots.
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« Reply #16 on: Jan 04, 2009, 10:55:59 pm »
Answers.com also uses TopicName, topicUniqueTitle, taxonomy and toxonomy_site. Hadn't ran into those before. Seems like they would be useful but unfortunately spammable like keywords.
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« Reply #17 on: Jan 06, 2009, 06:51:08 am »
Quote from: YMC on Jan 04, 2009, 10:55:59 pm
Answers.com also uses TopicName, topicUniqueTitle, taxonomy and toxonomy_site. Hadn't ran into those before. Seems like they would be useful but unfortunately spammable like keywords.

I guess they use this tags for internal searches, finally they are also a search engine (YMC, do you ever searched answers.com for "web development"? hehe)

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« Reply #18 on: Jan 14, 2009, 10:54:50 am »
I think meta tags do have importance in rankings even now. Earlier I wasn't using meta tags for my forum and it wasn't ranking in the search engines. But after  I edited the meta tags within 2-3 days, I could see my site on 2-3 page of google.
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« Reply #19 on: Feb 16, 2009, 04:59:58 pm »
Meta tags are surely still important.Well I would like to share my own story.My site was on the third page for a key word on google.I added meta info to my site.My rankings jumped from page 3 to page one of google straight away.So I pretty much believe , they still hold importance.
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