Meta tags completely dead??
 

Someone just told me that all major search engines (google,yahoo,msn etc..) are completely ignoring "meta name="Keywords" tag

I know that keywords are almost worthless (its not like in 1996), but I didn't know that they are completely ignored by SE's, and Google never supported keywords at all.

And this happened like year 2000 already and I'm still thinking which keywords to add when building new site :Oh crap :helpme

yes, they are gone to shit

Yeah, google has been ignorning them for a long time now. Yahoo/MSN ect started doing it after google. However the smaller guys still use them. So its not completely pointless but not really worth the time.

I still do them though because it takes me about 30 seconds and I figure it can't hurt.

same for me.

Takes me 5 minutes to do them. Do you have a gang of cheap labourers doing them for you?:helpme

naw I just have templates set up that I change the words on and slot in spot

yahoo uses them , and recently i have noticed google using them again too.

hah smokey is your flag geo-centric too?

Yahoo and MSN most definitely DO use them - havent seen Google respond to them but it wouldnt surprise me if they go back to it eventually

The have been abused over and over again, that's why they got dumped by the SE

i still use them as well

Same here.

same here

Its become second nature around here, a site without meta tags is a little naked to me.

I still add them out of habit. Like Sarah, I figure it can't hurt.

Google, Yahoo & MS Really shitting Sometimes.

they may only be used if your page is mostly comprised of images and very little, if any, text.

waiting for........ "there's no money in SEO post"

I don't use them anylonger ... The description meta tag is however used now by Google as well.

They seem to work great from what I hear and why not use them sine like everyone has said, it takes no more then a few miin.'s to do.

You should still make relevent meta tags, just don't rely on them getting your site ranked #1 (or #10 for that matter)

Cash - the description tag has always been used by Google - its especially useful if they dont find any text on the page - thats what they use for the snippet in the SERPs - great way to make extra sales :)

It's good web usability to use them anyway.

there is no money in SEO

damn, u beat me to it :upsidedow

You never know when things are going to change again, might as well have them in place for when it happens.

hell in a handbasket!

i use them also :thumbsup