Meta Tags - Use it or not

December 14th, 2007, 3:37 am

I am in little confusion about using Meta tags because as I know meta tags are devalued and not valuable for search engines as earlier and do not help to get higher ranking on search engines or Page rank so still we should use meta tags or now we should leave it.

Does it all right to add meta tags and leave your keywords open among your competitors. I mean by using keyword tag we add our all main keywords to our keyword tag and your competitors can easily see your keywords through view source and your hard work in selecting right keywords will be waste and your competitors have better chance to rank well and also have great chance to beat you without doing enough hard work.

What should we do, use it or avoid Meta tags now?

[Breeze]

December 14th, 2007, 4:07 am

Avoid meta tags? Craziness I say. Use them, because they are one of the main things that search engines look for.

December 14th, 2007, 8:15 am

You can use your meta tags but It's not that important, you must focus more on your targeted keywords.

December 14th, 2007, 8:26 am

don't ignore metas coz, some SE's are still looking for it as one of their ranking factors..

December 15th, 2007, 1:16 am

Google gives a lot of "weight" to the title tag. So, try to put your target keywords in title tag for better SERPs. But you have to limite your title tags to 60 characters. Google does not use meta tags such as the keywords meta tag or the description meta tag because it has tendency to create description from first few lines of text on your site.

December 15th, 2007, 5:41 am

weblaunchphxx wrote:

Google gives a lot of "weight" to the title tag. So, try to put your target keywords in title tag for better SERPs. But you have to limite your title tags to 60 characters. Google does not use meta tags such as the keywords meta tag or the description meta tag because it has tendency to create description from first few lines of text on your site.

Ok....... but does it not make easy to our competitors to easily get our list of keywords for that we have work hard to select and to get rank.

December 17th, 2007, 2:45 am

coolslko wrote:

weblaunchphxx wrote:

Google gives a lot of "weight" to the title tag. So, try to put your target keywords in title tag for better SERPs. But you have to limite your title tags to 60 characters. Google does not use meta tags such as the keywords meta tag or the description meta tag because it has tendency to create description from first few lines of text on your site.

Ok....... but does it not make easy to our competitors to easily get our list of keywords for that we have work hard to select and to get rank.

Please suggest me the way through which we can keep our target keywords secrete from our competitors.

December 17th, 2007, 6:11 am

weblaunchphxx wrote:

coolslko wrote:

weblaunchphxx wrote:

Google gives a lot of "weight" to the title tag. So, try to put your target keywords in title tag for better SERPs. But you have to limite your title tags to 60 characters. Google does not use meta tags such as the keywords meta tag or the description meta tag because it has tendency to create description from first few lines of text on your site.

Ok....... but does it not make easy to our competitors to easily get our list of keywords for that we have work hard to select and to get rank.

Please suggest me the way through which we can keep our target keywords secrete from our competitors.

Yes........that I mean and I am also looking for that.......If I will come to know I will sure let you know too.

December 19th, 2007, 5:06 pm

red_socks wrote:

You can use your meta tags but It's not that important, you must focus more on your targeted keywords.

Yap tour right. The meta tags are just another way of increasing your keywords density. So yes ... it is for the best to use them. Not like other guys say that search engines are crazy about them .... they are good only for one thing DENSITY OF KEYWORDS

December 20th, 2007, 1:34 pm

Just like everyone else is saying, put some time into them, but it should not be your main concern. Some SE's do use them for their ranking factors. Google focuses highly on Title/keyword density. Mostly onsite optimization is popular with yahoo and the like.

December 20th, 2007, 11:05 pm

Use at least meta description, keywords in your page.

December 24th, 2007, 1:30 am

Even if you don't put keywords in your meta tag your competitors will still know what keywords you want your site optimized. It's just a matter of finding the right tools.

December 25th, 2007, 5:17 am

lukeatme7 wrote:

Even if you don't put keywords in your meta tag your competitors will still know what keywords you want your site optimized. It's just a matter of finding the right tools.

thats right frd....

but there are many other factors except Meta tags for on page optimization ... so y to worry about the competitors copying our meta tags ... u keep ur hard work on and get ur needful results for sure ....


Regards
Puneet M

December 26th, 2007, 10:06 am

Meta tags are helpful....can increase site visibilty to spiders...

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