SEOClerks

Clear
Sign In Join

Are meta tags still being used in web ranking?

  • EliteWriter Level 3
    • 6

    Write the reason you're deleting this FAQ

    Are meta tags still being used in web ranking?

    Meta keywords used to be considered as a good on page SEO technique. Meta tags were considered to be a good way for search engines to read and index sites. However I have heard that they no longer have that sort of power to help a site rank well in search engine results.

    #Meta #Tags #Ranking #Seo SEO
    Share post:

    Comments

    Please login or sign up to leave a comment

    Join
    Beverly

    Beverly

    In reference to use of meta keywords for ranking, Matt Cutts summarized it nicely by saying, '... we don't use that information in our ranking even the least little bit'.



    However, just to clarify, meta keyword is a type of meta tags. And, you can't ignore all meta tags as they are useful to help Google identify information about your site and even if they don't help you rank, meta tags (such as well written meta description) can improve click-throughs from Google search results.

    A list of most commonly used meta tags include:
    • meta description
    • meta title
    • robots (i.e. nofollow, no snippet)
    • Google site (owner) verification


    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en

    In another place, Matt Cutts specifically said, '... you shouldn't spend any time on the meta keywords tag. We don't use it.'

    However, in reference to Meta Tags, he went on to stress the importance of using a really well written meta description (meta tag) as this can be used by Google for creating a 'snippet' shown in search results.

    10 years ago

    Are you sure you want to delete this post?

    Drake83

    Drake83

    Search engines stopped using them a long time ago as ranking factors/indicators because of the massive abuse they faced. People were putting fake keywords, descriptions and titles just to rank higher. However, that being said, I know that Google still reads them and even uses the description meta tag in some search result snippets. Google even says as much here: https://support.google.com/webmast...swer/35624?hl=en (under Create good meta descriptions).
    10 years ago

    Are you sure you want to delete this post?

    Corzhens

    Corzhens

    Do you mean to say that we can change the title of the site just like that? I wonder why you called it fake titles and descriptions when they can be real. I mean how do you determine that the title and description are fake? Anyway I think the title, description and keyword are still being used for the purposes of ranking because the keyword in particular is still popular with website owners.
    8 years ago

    Are you sure you want to delete this post?

    anwebservices

    anwebservices

    As far as i know, meta keywords and meta description does NOT help in web ranking or SERP for long time, but they are still important when it comes to quality SEO of your website and for some crawlers from smaller search engines which use older technologies and different algorithms then Google, Bing etc... So it's still good to have them.
    10 years ago

    Are you sure you want to delete this post?

    idealmike

    idealmike

    Some search engines still use them! But none that you might ever or want to be listed in like Yandex and DuckDuckGo.

    And Google says they don't use them in their ranking decision, but they do index them.

    Just like they index WP tags, even though they're often no follow.

    Also having them doesn't hurt your rankings one iota in anyway at all.

    So its better to have them and not need them rather than need them and not have them.

    IMHO.
    10 years ago

    Are you sure you want to delete this post?

    ajlancer

    ajlancer

    Hi as per as I know google finally stopped providing PR. But as search technique Google still indexing Meta tag as search term. So it should be good still for SEO for your web site. And other search engine still counting this part. So you can not evade it for your website.
    10 years ago

    Are you sure you want to delete this post?

    Order Now
    Process Time: 0.068264961242676

    Possible Duplicate queries found!
    MatchCountSQLScript
    SELECT * FROM members_ledger WHERE ip = ? AND added>=unix_timestamp(NOW())-864001SELECT querystring, added FROM members_ledger WHERE ip = ? AND added>=unix_timestamp(NOW())-86400

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/includes/security.php 398 fetchMemberLedger() include_once()

    SELECT * FROM `questions` as q JOIN categories_faq as c ON q.catid=c.CATID WHERE (q.status=1 OR (q.status=2 AND userid='') ) AND q.quesid='9860'1SELECT q.*, c.seo as CatSEO, c.name as CatName, c.parentid FROM `questions` as q JOIN categories_faq as c ON q.catid=c.CATID WHERE (q.status=1 OR (q.status=2 AND userid='') ) AND q.quesid='9860'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/viewfaq.php 496 () ()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='212316'1SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='212316'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/includes/member.php 445 GetAllUserDetails() ()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID=2123161SELECT googleplus_profile FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID=212316

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 16914 GetGooglePlusProfileFromId() ()

    SELECT * FROM ratings_faq as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=9860 LIMIT 51SELECT m.username FROM ratings_faq as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=9860 LIMIT 5

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 17159 GetVoters() ()

    SELECT * FROM answers a, seoclerks.members b WHERE a.quesid='9860' AND a.userid=b.USERID and b.status='1' AND a.status=1 ORDER BY a.combined_votes DESC, a.date_answered asc1SELECT a.answer, a.USERID, a.upvotes, a.downvotes, a.ansid, a.parentid, a.combined_votes, a.date_answered, b.username, b.userlevel, b.profilepicture FROM answers a, seoclerks.members b WHERE a.quesid='9860' AND a.userid=b.USERID and b.status='1' AND a.status=1 ORDER BY a.combined_votes DESC, a.date_answered asc

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/viewfaq.php 1245 () ()

    SELECT * FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38371 LIMIT 51SELECT m.username FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38371 LIMIT 5

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 17159 GetVoters() ()

    SELECT * FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38368 LIMIT 51SELECT m.username FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38368 LIMIT 5

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 17159 GetVoters() ()

    SELECT * FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=165904 LIMIT 51SELECT m.username FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=165904 LIMIT 5

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 17159 GetVoters() ()

    SELECT * FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38361 LIMIT 51SELECT m.username FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38361 LIMIT 5

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 17159 GetVoters() ()

    SELECT * FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38585 LIMIT 51SELECT m.username FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38585 LIMIT 5

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 17159 GetVoters() ()

    SELECT * FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38660 LIMIT 51SELECT m.username FROM ratings_faqanswers as r, seoclerks.members as m WHERE r.USERID=m.USERID AND r.upvote=1 AND r.PID=38660 LIMIT 5

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 17159 GetVoters() ()

    UPDATE questions SET total_views = total_views + 1 WHERE quesid='9860'1UPDATE questions SET total_views = total_views + 1 WHERE quesid='9860'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/include/functions/main.php 1765 update_Faqviewcount() ()

    SELECT * FROM questions WHERE quesid!='9860' AND status='1' AND (question like '%Are meta tags web ranking?%' OR question like '%meta%' OR question like '%tags%' OR question like '%ranking?%') -- ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 151SELECT quesid, question, seo, userid FROM questions WHERE quesid!='9860' AND status='1' AND (question like '%Are meta tags web ranking?%' OR question like '%meta%' OR question like '%tags%' OR question like '%ranking?%') -- ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 15

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() ()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='43' limit 11SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='43' limit 1

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_member_profilepicture()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='840' limit 11SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='840' limit 1

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_member_profilepicture()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='337' limit 11SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='337' limit 1

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_member_profilepicture()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='1508' limit 11SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='1508' limit 1

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_member_profilepicture()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='17031' limit 11SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='17031' limit 1

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_member_profilepicture()

    SELECT * FROM members_ledger WHERE script='/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/viewfaq.php' AND querystring LIKE '%id=9860%' AND added>=UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())-1200 GROUP BY USERID 1SELECT USERID, username FROM members_ledger WHERE script='/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/viewfaq.php' AND querystring LIKE '%id=9860%' AND added>=UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())-1200 GROUP BY USERID

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() ()

    SELECT * FROM categories1SELECT * FROM categories

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() parseRedundantQueriesCache()

    select * from categories_software order by name asc1select * from categories_software order by name asc

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_GetSoftwareCategories()

    select * from categories_wanttobuy order by name asc1select * from categories_wanttobuy order by name asc

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_wantcategories()

    select * from categories_wanttotrade order by name asc1select * from categories_wanttotrade order by name asc

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_get_tradecategories()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='147.jpg'1SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='147.jpg'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='6289.jpg'1SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='6289.jpg'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='600657.jpg'1SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='600657.jpg'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='254580.jpg'1SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='254580.jpg'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='272.jpg'1SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='272.jpg'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage()

    SELECT * FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='4987.jpg'1SELECT profilepicture FROM seoclerks.members WHERE USERID='4987.jpg'

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() getUserProfileImage()

    select * from categories_faq order by name asc1select * from categories_faq order by name asc

    		/opt/clerks-staging/docroot/libraries/adodb5/adodb.inc.php 1899 CacheExecute() insert_GetFaqCategories()

    Invalid SQL

    count(*)sql1error_msg

    Expensive SQL

    Tuning the following SQL could reduce the server load substantially
    LoadCountSQLMaxMin

    Suspicious SQL

    The following SQL have high average execution times
    Avg TimeCountSQLMaxMin