Are Meta Tags needed for wordpress sites ?

A good question to ask is if meta tags are still necessary. They used to be more helpful, providing important information to the Internet browser. As browsers became more sophisticated, they stopped needing a lot of hand holding in order to figure out if your site is in English or Chinese.

Some search engines don’t use the meta tag information any more because many people abused it. In fact, meta tags may not represent the content of your site. But, it still doesn’t hurt your status with search engines if you make use of these little bits of information, and do so truthfully.

Without a doubt, content is the biggest contributor to search engine page ranking, so if you want to raise your rankings, make sure you have quality content.

Keywords meta tags, on the other hand, are still used by some search engines to categorize and rank your website. Those engines compare the keywords with the content, giving you “points” for having your keywords match your content. Keywords are one of the most important meta tags you can add to your WordPress site.

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