Are the keyword and description meta tag still useful?

These tags have been heavily abused over the years and virtually no major search engine uses it anymore.

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My current rule of thumb is jam in some keyword and description meta tags (as it is a good way of getting keywords into your source) but don't waste too much time worrying about it. I would avoid repeating words (like export) as this might be considered as spamming but...........

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Relevant threads:

I am ashamed #3....Meta Meta Meta!

Search Keywords

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Relevant links:

Andrew Goodman's 2 parts article entitled "Enough Already":
Part 1 / Part 2

Death of a Meta Tag

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Emperor

(Added by: Emperor on Fri 28-Nov-2003)

(Edited by: Emperor on Fri 28-Nov-2003)