Why are meta tags are still important?

[sneha1234]

Meta tags are important because they provide valuable information to browsers, search engines, and web surfers, about the content of your web pages and your site. It gives the brief information about about a webpage.

[spinxwebdesign]

Meta tags include basic information about web page, so user can easily understand about that webpage. Meta description shows in search results of search engine and Meta keyword tags are still working for some search engines. Meta tags are also useful for web page keyword ranking in Search engine.

[AllenSantiago]

Meta tag is very important while showing or displaying information about the web page on the search engine result pages so that user can easily identify required information or websites. It contains Title, Description and Keywords.

[tarunjangra]

Meta tags are very important in on paging seo. we include our targeted keywords, description and title in meta keywords, meta description and title tag respectively.

[ericfox]

According to me Search Engines such as Yahoo and MSN still use meta tags as part of the determining factors for ranking a site. Each page of your website should have different keywords and descriptions that reflect the content on those pages. These techniques for using meta tags will not guarantee search engine placement but when combined with a complete search engine optimization campaign can help.

[maxsamuel]

meta tag are still important form the seo point of view. coz it has all the information related to site like keyword description and more things. search engine crawl these things to optimize the site. so i think it is still very important.

[siyajoshi]

Meta tags are HTML codes that are inserted into the header on a web page, after the title tag. They take a variety of forms and serve a variety of purposes, but in the context of search engine optimization when people refer to meta tags, they are usually referring to the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag.
Though meta keywords tag and meta description tags are not the main factor search engines consider when ranking sites, they should not be left off the page. A meta description tag is supposed to be a brief and concise summary of your page's content. A meta keyword tag is supposed to be a summary list of the most important words on your page. They were both proposed in order to make using the web easier.

[ruby]

Though meta keywords tag and meta description tags are not the main factor search engines consider when ranking sites, they should not be left off the page. A meta description tag is supposed to be a brief and concise summary of your page's content. A meta keyword tag is supposed to be a summary list of the most important words on your page. They were both proposed in order to make using the web easier. Unfortunately, webmasters over the years have abused meta tags so much that search engine creators have had to de-emphasize their importance in their algorithms.

[josshray]

Yes meta tags are always important which specify your site nature, business category in the search engines.

[JennySandres]

No, Meta tags are not important. However it helps search engine bots to get an idea about your website.

[seosmartglance]

Meta tag is very important for your site help to seo

[jennifer1234]

Meta tags to determine what a web page is about, the search engines now focus on other tags and the content of a webpages.

[icecube media]

Yes, Meta tags are just as a brief introduction of your website. These tags make search engine easy to know about your website. So don't neglect the meta tags.

[Alex Thompson]

Meta tags like Meta description, Meta title, Meta header tags are used for the relevancy of website. Google crawler reads the code and meta tags are part of your content Html. that's why its Good to set propel meta tags.

[roger4321]

it is important as only by this we will have the keywords for the site.

[TommyBenvolio]

Search Engine will crawl website through the meta tags according to the keywords of the website. So crawler reads your meta title, description and keywords for crawling any website. Thats y mostly people used meta tags.