Do I need met tags on my website?

People, get over it! Meta Tags are DEAD!

The simple premise of a meta tag is a hidden field where a webmaster can tell the search engine what the website is about. And before anyone knew what was going on, webmasters used the meta tags to spam the search engines.A few bad apples ruined it for everyone.

Just because you say your website is about "handmade jewlry" does not mean that it really is.

And search engines are big business. People expect good results. So they are not going to let you tell them what your site is about. There are going to check themselves.The only real value a page has is the text in the page. Like this article about wasting time on meta tags.

The logic I have given you is unfailable. You can't argue with it, you can substantiate it in any search engine help section. But none the less, people keep using them.

Here at pagebuzz, we added a tool to create meta tags so people are happy.

Just like google added a submission form so people would think they have added their website to google. Despite their help section stating, you are wasting your time using the submission form, I am sure millions of people submit their websites that way.The form appeard afters years of not having one and likely under pressure from site owners looking for their website in google. If you give them a form, they are happy. Weather google uses any of the data submitted is another story, but it keeps people from e-mailing google and asking when their site will be listed.

The same is true of meta tags, search like google just ignore them. If you want to spend time adding them, go for it. But it wont help you one bit and it can ultimately hurt your search rank.