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Google On Meta Tags: Save It

Google wants you to know that the keywords "meta tag" have no impact on how its search engine ranks pages. "Our web search (the well-known search at Google.com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword metatags completely. They simply don't have any effect in our search ranking at present."

Does this mean that Google ignores all meta tags? "No, Google does support several other meta tags ... This meta tags page documents more info on several meta tags that we do use ... For example, we do sometimes use the 'description' meta tag as the text for our search results snippets." Good to know.

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