Meta tags, keywords, importance, questions...

[dchakrab]

Hi all. My website is now in need of a keyword revamp, so i can submit it and hopefully see it ranked. So i have a few questions for web development people who know a little about meta keyword tags.

Do the tags on subsequent pages matter, or is the main page the only one that's important? Should subsequent pages have the same tags as the index?

Any maximum on how many words i can add? Is the order of meta keywords important at all?

Will having more than one set of keywords be a problem (for example, if some are inserted from a template, and the rest inserter specific to the page later on, in a seperate "meta" tag?

How important is the meta "description" and what relationship should this have to my meta keywords?

Thanks all, in advance. I'll post more as they come up, once i get a couple of responses to these.

The site is: Nirman home

-Dave.

 

[igowerf]

Since Google, I don't think meta tags really matter anymore. I wouldn't worry about it. I've found that people who would be interested in my site have managed to find my site via google.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Yeah, keywords don't matter a whole lot anymore since we have intelligent search engines like google that largely ignore meta tags.

"If you write it, they will come."

 

[dchakrab]

So how would Google rank/classify my site? What is it based on...is the meta "description" important at all?

-Dave.

 

[igowerf]

I think Google works by ranking sites based on how popular they are and by the words that actually appear in the site content. By popularity, I mean how many other sites link to it. I don't have any meta tags for keywords on any of my pages.

This way, for example, popular hardware sites like Anandtech will be listed at the top. Since Anandtech is popular, people will link to it from a lot of different sources like their personal websites.