My meta tags are everywhere!!

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Linkster

Would you care to explain that? And please show some documented references as I would wholeheartedly dis-agree right now.

For Yahoo, metatags are up there. They seem to apply more weight than Google.

On the other hand, I found in my SEO campaigns with Google, that metatags don't carry as much weight as they did several years ago. There are many other on-page factors that, in my opinion, carry more weight than the general metatag, which is obviously open to keyword stuffing and abuse.

I probably shouldn't have said "VERY insignificant", but I'm sure other SEOers will agree that they do not contain as much weight as they once did.