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Originally Posted by baddog
Well, it is better to have those things (both keyword and description) than not as there are other SE's out there and you never know when Google is going to change their mind.
JMHO, of course.
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Exactly... I do a lot of blackhat shit myself so I get sandboxed by Google all the time... But I make a ton of money on the other search engines because I don't just target Google.
There is also a group of people who think Google DOES use them like this:
The Big Picture:
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Tags with bullshit that doesn't match page content:
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Tags that do match page content:
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So you supposedly do get a break for having the right ones, it just doesn't do much for you and they are not used in the SERP's. But in an industry where the difference between page 5 and page 1 can mean those extra two - , wouldn't you just use em anyway?