meta question ?

[bdld]

the only search engines worth caring about are google & yahoo and neither one puts much emphasis on meta tags.

[justbondage]

Originally Posted by bdld

puts much emphasis

The keyword here is much, even if metatags only constitute 1% of the things google looks for when deciding where your page ranks for a certain word, for the sake of 3 minutes why shoot yourself in the foot by not including a brief description.

And even if you only got a couple of hundred hits a month off a lesser known search engine, if it uses metatags a lot taking that small amount of time to put some tags in could double your output from that engine.

As long as they aren't abused, there will be no negative effect from doing it, only positive.