Though most largest search engines do not 'spider' the keyword Meta Tags on your page, and in some cases ignore these completely, the use of Meta Tags on your page still serves an important purpose. There are literally hundreds, even thousands of smaller search engines scattered all across the Internet. Whilst the bigger engines tend to 'spider' whole pages instead and obtain their results from that, these smaller search engines don't have as much physical space to work with and must do things differently. It is in these particular engines you will find that Meta Tags are still very important.

As it is commonly known, from a SEO point of view, META tags have either little or no influence on the major Search Engines’ SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages). However, the content of the meta-description tags are the information that major search engines (like Yahoo, Google and MSN) display when the search algorithm decides not to display snippets of the text near and around the keywords requested by the user.

This post has been edited by Paul: Jun 4 2006, 10:48 PM