on 9/23/08 mjatharvest wrote:

I used to add a META description to content pages using the <? getContent(“page”...“show:description“); ?>

From what I’ve been reading and hearing lately, seems like META tags don’t do much good at all for SEO anymore. Anybody else using keyword or META tags and feel it’s doing them any good?

on 9/23/08 sbonham3 wrote:

Here’s an interesting post regarding Google’s take:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html

Money quote:

And it’s worth noting that while accurate meta descriptions can improve clickthrough, they won’t affect your ranking within search results.