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Old December 7th, 2002, 06:01 PM
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Never underestimate the importance of those META tags. They can make all the difference between your users coming to your site and going to your competitor's – just because they couldn't find yours. Search Engines heavily rely upon the Keywords & Description Meta tags to populate their search database.


I agree that the description meta tag is important, as you want as far as possible to be able to control your site's description in search engine results. However, there have been a number of recent articles that have suggested that the meta keywords tag is dead. According to Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineWatch.Com, Inktomi is the last major crawler to still support the keywords tag. See his article on the Death of a Meta Tag.
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>>Inktomi is the last major crawler to still support the keywords tag

That's about what I was going to say. META tag use in search engines IS a thing of the past. Google is largely powering the net's search engines and portals, and Google looks at site content and contexts of keywords. But even the other search engine players (except Inktomi) have abandoned the META tags.
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