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    is there any importance for meta tags in google ranking?

    Friends can you please tell me Google does it gives any importance yo meta tags?
    If there is no importance then why to add?

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    I think yes, the reason behind my thought is bots and crawlers will read a script only whether it will be Java, php or html as they are programmed. Now if you are adding a keyword in meta tag it will help those bots and crawlers to find your website easily.
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    Yes meta-tags are important, but don't expect they will help your keyword ranking so don't overuse keywords. There are many other ways apart from meta-tags that Google uses to determine what your site is about and what should be the SERP. So just prepare a user-engaging content that users would like to click in case it shows up in results.
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    I think it does affect your ranking..
    It explains waht is your site is about and this is good in SERP

    Cisanupam is right. Don't overuse your keywords.
    Use keywords density.. your keywords may be in 10-15% density on your meta tag

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlistarWaugh View Post
    I think yes, the reason behind my thought is bots and crawlers will read a script only whether it will be Java, php or html as they are programmed. Now if you are adding a keyword in meta tag it will help those bots and crawlers to find your website easily.
    Yeah it seems what you said is exactly happened recently when I was seeing my web master tools notification.

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    Yeah I too observed many thing while doing SEO , even now dialy come across the facts that says yes meta tags are important and without it a website SEO looks incomplete.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlistarWaugh View Post
    Yeah I too observed many thing while doing SEO , even now dialy come across the facts that says yes meta tags are important and without it a website SEO looks incomplete.
    if we will not give meta tags, it is showing something different in Google search results.

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    Previously Google bots used to give importance to meta tags but not now. They are only useful for Yahoo and Bing.

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    The answer to your question is YES!! However, having said that please keep in mind that not all metas are given the same importance!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jackbil View Post
    Previously Google bots used to give importance to meta tags but not now. They are only useful for Yahoo and Bing.
    As per your data Google doesn't care about meta tags, but it is showing the meta tags description in it's search results, so how can we understand this theory?

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    Quote Originally Posted by arronmattwills View Post
    Friends can you please tell me Google does it gives any importance yo meta tags?
    If there is no importance then why to add?
    Yes, Meta tags has impact on rankings. In fact a huge impact. My favorite meta tags to get effective results are description and robots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jackbil View Post
    Previously Google bots used to give importance to meta tags but not now. They are only useful for Yahoo and Bing.
    Google still does give importance to meta tags. The only uneffective meta tag is "keyword". Apart from that almost all meta tags are effective. the Meta description tag is unavoidable one.

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    Yes meta tags are important but the bulk usage may affect negatively on your site. But the old sites with long meta tags are now gone to very low ranking in google and they are penalized by google, so be careful using them.
    Yet Google has not started punishing lengthy data in meta tags. Googlebot just ignore the characters after the max character limit in meat.

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    these meta-tags could help your site to be find much easier by SE

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    You cannot ignore the importance of meta tags. Meta tags include the description and keyword that tells Google bots the type of content on your site and for which keywords you are working.

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    In my view meta tags are important in Google ranking it places a big role while doing S E O to your website. Meta tags are hidden tags in the code and it can't be seen by the people who browse your site. The meta tags which we often use are title,description and the key words.

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    Meta tags are important for search engines, so we must place meta tags on every pages of the website that are relevant to the page topic. While other things are also important in SEO for promotion which are above meta tags.

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    i think meta tag is still important factor for ranking purpose.

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    I found this from some blog post. and they were correct too

    Meta tags are the words that are hidden in your code. People browsing your site will just not be able to see them. It is, as Danny Sullivan puts it, a ‘legal’ way of hiding words in your webpages for search engines. The search engines still read them for it to have a simple, summarized idea of what your site is about and what exactly your keywords are.

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    i think meta tags very importend for a web site

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    The meta tag is not used nowadays. Meta description will help you to increase keyword impression and help to visitors whether click or not.


 

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