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Do Meta Tags Matter For SEO? Yes, But Not In The Way You Think

A lot of people want to know if meta tags still matter.

And they do still matter, but not in the way you might think.  Google ignores them when deciding how to rank your site for a keyword.

But there is another way that meta tag description can help you rank higher and get traffic.

I explain in this quick video

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Adam November 10, 2011 at 8:56 am

Thanks for that video Nick. I have been doing this lately but I wasn’t really sure if it was working for me or not. This is one of those things that I have not gotten around to testing yet.
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Home-Body Susan November 10, 2011 at 9:01 am

Good one, Nick! Thanks. I think it takes so little extra time to use meta tags, that it is still very much worth doing, as you show here. One hears so many different views about the various search engine’s use of them, that I am not going to take a chance and leave them out. And, as you say, they can even help in an indirect way we usually are unaware of.
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Sandra Lohan November 10, 2011 at 10:42 pm

hey Nick,
In a different views that was supposed to search it for the engines to be. I got some informative ideas of meta tags which make is a cool worth for. Thanks for this.

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Best Make Money Online November 11, 2011 at 6:31 am

Yes Nick, I do agree that meta description is still important now, even after many Google updates and changes over time, as you say, less directly and more indirectly.

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College Textbooks November 11, 2011 at 3:01 pm

Great video Nick, i have tried to explain this to a couple people but I was not as successful as you were. I will have to forward this on.

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Funny Siri Responses November 11, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Nick, Nice video you you got there. Meta tags are important as i think people do take the time to read your blog’s description before entering, Atleast I do.
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more money November 12, 2011 at 2:49 am

Great video thanks for share. Meta tags was a useful part of the seo process proper keywords, descriptions helps a lot for increasing the ranking of the websites.
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Adam November 12, 2011 at 9:25 pm

Nick, I just wanted to say that I am loving the new layout of your site. It looks really good. I see that you are still not done tweaking the site but I just wanted to let you know what I thought of it.
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Nick November 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm

Thanks for the feedback Adam!

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ayurvedic supplements November 13, 2011 at 3:24 am

I think meta tags can absolutely help a lot with your website traffic and your tip on how to use meta tags in this way can be really beneficial. :) Thanks, Nick!
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Web Design In India November 15, 2011 at 3:44 am

i like your video most… the meta tags and unique content plays main role for getting rank in to search engine. your way of using meta tag is really very good and it is too useful.
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Bill (LoneWolf) Nickerson November 15, 2011 at 7:32 pm

I’ve always been of the opinion that meta tags (including “keyword”) can’t hurt. Who knows, they may come back into vogue with the search engines someday.

I’ve been using an SEO plugin that allows me to use the description and shows me exactly how it would look in Google, even highlighting the keywords that I specified as my main keyword. It really helps to see how the description makes a difference.

The funny thing is that the keyword meta is turned off by default in the plugin. I turned it on and basically add my tags and the main keyword (and maybe a few more) just in case they become useful at some point in the future.

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Internet Marketing Service India November 17, 2011 at 10:55 pm

Hello, Nick i have go through your Video and i would like to say that you have posted very nice Video about Meta Description.
Meta description plays very important role in SEO, Its really very very important for us.
In your Video you have mentioned that when we are going to search in Google at that time Google will show only Title and Description. So emphasizing on Description is very important.
And Description gives Over all Idea about the Content of Page or what the page is about so its very Important.
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Property Marbella November 18, 2011 at 4:37 am

Meta description is still important and I working hard to get the right descriptions on every article or page I make on my site.
(Sorry wrong spelling in the name)

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JACK SMITH November 23, 2011 at 12:59 am

Just saw your Write ups and it title catches my attention. Any Search engine try to find out meta tag of a website.Anyway, this post helps me. thanks! keep it up!

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FramesUK November 26, 2011 at 2:30 pm

thanks for sharing this. A good couple of points made, particularly re meta-tag descriptions and making people more likely to click. another example of how writing pages for users actually helps with seo and serps.

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Glasses Online November 29, 2011 at 4:46 am

SEO services do help in bringing more traffic but i would like to tell you one thing first. If you don’t have a useful content nothing will help you. How websites survive long is depend on how many visitors comeback to your site or bookmark your site. That is one thing that will make the difference. Now for SEO this question itself seem to be an advertisement for the particular SEO services.thanks

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Michael December 6, 2011 at 10:32 am

Hi Nick,

I agree with your point re. meta descriptions. I always used this approach anyway — so it’s good to see it confirmed.

By the way, I just found your site via the WF War Room. You’ve been bookmarked!

Michael
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Nick December 9, 2011 at 7:23 am

Thanks Michael. Hope to see you back.

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