If you mean for search engines, then yes, I think you are correct. However, there may be other valid reasons for using metadata.
Does anyone remember when Anil Dash (from Six Apart) beat out 2 SEO companies and won a SEO competition in 2004? http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/07/27/optimizing_sear The best SEO is to have *relevant content* that speaks in the same language as your target audience, rather than trying to manipulate SERP's by keyword stuffing and other tricks. You may find these links useful: http://www.penmachine.com/techie/search_ranking_2004-08.html http://www.penmachine.com/2004/08/is-it-worth-optimizing-your-site-for.html http://wolfram.org/writing/howto/3.html kind regards Terrence Wood. Martin Jopson said: > So, from John & Derek's responses, am I correct in thinking there's no > use for the Meta Keywords or Meta Description tags anymore? ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
