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    META tags. How do i used them effectively?

    Is it as simple as just adding the appropriate info?......

    <meta name="description" content="Title of page here for e.g">

    <meta name="keywords" content=" Important words within the page here.">

    Or is there more to them? The above seems too easy to me for some reason.

    One more thing. If i put the meta tags in will search engines pick them up or will i need to contact search engines to say the site exists?

    Sorry if i seem a bit dull here, I've never had a want to use meta tags before

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    They're pretty useless for search engine rankings now. The search engines are wise to people abusing them and now do more complex checking of page content versus title and so on. Meta tags may still be useful to screen readers etc but don't rely on them for search rankings

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    I don't use meta tags whatsoever, they make my index page messy

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