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Declaring The Death of Metatags

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the few-bad-apples-spoiled-the-barrel dept.

theduck writes "Andrew Goodman of Traffick.com pleaded for someone to announce the end of metatags (at least with respect to trying to skeeve good search engine ranking). and Danny Sullivan, Editor of The SearchEngineReport obliged. Personally, I've resisted using them for years, but convincing clients that they're not worth the effort has always been difficult. Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?"

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    DAmn it! FP LOL LOSERS!

  2. There's no point to them anymore by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's no point to keywords anymore, since with sellout searching, you mostly get results based on the highest bidder, not the most relevant information.

    As far as anything else goes, metatags for search engines have been so abused for years as to be deserve extermination.

  3. stress and time by jlv · · Score: 2, Troll
    From the article on SearchEngineReport
    The stress and time involved in trying to craft a tag was not worth it
    Stress and time to type <meta name="...">?
  4. Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You forgot "russ nelson", the Amish wannabe-geek who fucks teenage boys for cash. He's really popular in Linux-luser child molester circles, as evidenced by Google's adult search statistics for last month -- three of the top 500 adult-oriented search strings included his name, with "russ nelson underage preschool cherry" being #51. (Underage Preschool Cherry is the name of Russ's revolutionary scientific study regarding how many dollar bills the average preschool boy requires to... well, I won't say more, lest I offend the delicate homophobic anti-child pr0n sensibilties of the average Slashdotter. If you're interested in seeing this fine move, you can request a free copy from the Flemish Boys' Institute -- just enter your contact information here.