In 2014, I wrote an article titled “Why Meta Descriptions are Useless for SEO.” At the time I had comments open (I have since turned them off since the website was receiving over 20,000 spam comments a month and you can just reach me on Twitter if you have a response), and I received a lot of comments from SEO providers saying that while they agreed that meta descriptions were overrated, they still said that…
read moreWhat if I told you that the SEO box on your Wordpress site was a lie, and that all of those “Meta:” tags are simply a waste of time? It’s been a common practice in the SEO world to enter meta tags. Business owners often request them when they’re posting content themselves, and SEO companies ask writers to provide meta titles, tags, and descriptions for all of the content they produce. All of it may…
read moreQuick post today about a common misconception about SEO. Many SEO companies still believe that meta tags are an important part of search engine marketing, particularly keyword meta tags. While meta tags themselves (such as adding a description) does still play a role, and since some search engines do still use meta tags in their ranking, we don’t necessarily advise against using meta keywords. But it should be noted that Google itself has said specifically…
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