Meta Tags?

[daygon]

What is the purpose for meta tags so i can use them if necessary.

[herkalees]

From Search Engine Watch:

Want to get a top ranking in search engines? No problem! All you need to do is add a few magical "meta tags" to your web pages, and you'll skyrocket to the top of the listings.

If only it were so easy. Let's make it clear:
- Meta tags are not a magic solution.
- Meta tags are not a magic solution.
- Meta tags are not a magic solution.

Meta tags have never been a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines. Today, the most valuable feature they offer the web site owner is the ability to control to some degree how their web pages are described by some search engines. They also offer the ability to prevent pages from being indexed at all. This page explores these and other meta tag-related features in more depth.

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[daygon]

ahh ok so they're pretty much pointless.

[mreine]

I wouldn't say pointless.

You need to check out the site he posted, no need to repeat everything here.