Early on in the world of blogs and websites vying for attention, meta tags were used to get a higher ranking in search engines. But does Google still rank websites through meta tags?
In the video below, Google software engineer Matt Cutts says that keyword meta tags aren’t relied upon to rank the page. He does go on to say that Google doesn’t ignore every meta tag.
This past week I’ve been doing some research on how to add meta tags to my Blogger blog which is why I’m bringing the subject up. I’m still up in the air about it, but I’m leaning toward adding meta tags to blogs that will allow me to do so, both keyword and description to help draw traffic.
Here is a discussion on the WordPress forum about the use of meta tags. Basically, you can’t add them to a WordPress.com blog. I’m unsure of WordPress.org. What do you think? Have you added meta tags to blogs? Both WordPress and Blogger have areas to add tags with each post, which I think works well.
