Are Meta Keywords That Important Now?... i think they arent...

[deadmad7 4]

I am kind of in a Limbo state right now, I am currently doing "SEO" optimization on my site and came across some Plugins to do them for me (Headspace 2, All in Seo,etc.). Then i found out that the Theme i made doesn't support Meta "Keywords", only Descriptions and Titles. I messed around with them and tried different codes but NONE of them seem to work.

 

After that, I searched the web to see if they were that important and if they weren't that i could just skip them. I came across some blogs that said that they were "essential" and others who said the search engines don't look at them anymore (google,bing,yahoo,etc.) and that only small Search engines do that nowadays.

 

So, i wanted to know if they were that "important" or not.... Whats your opinion?

 

MY DECISION

 

If they aren't : Skip them and work on other seo important stuff

 

If they are : Spend my every living hour trying to make them work.

 

Details : I use Wordpress 2.9.2 and my own theme that coded 100%... okay -- i learn them from WD's site And I WON'T SWITCH MY PLUGIN -- it has other SEO stuff that others don't offer.

[mahesh2k 0]

Google doesn't pay attention to them anymore. Some other search engines still crawl for them . (for example, cuil, quintura etc etc). I yet to see any good posts from Aron wall or matt cuts about meta tags importance in new SE update (Google & Bing). If you're using wordpress then i suggest using these plugins:Headspace 2All in one SEO And then do the tweaks that are necessary for your wordpress setup. These two plugins are enough for most of the SEO tweaks.

[deadmad7 4]

Google doesn't pay attention to them anymore. Some other search engines still crawl for them . (for example, cuil, quintura etc etc). I yet to see any good posts from Aron wall or matt cuts about meta tags importance in new SE update (Google & Bing).
If you're using wordpress then i suggest using these plugins:

Headspace 2
All in one SEO

And then do the tweaks that are necessary for your wordpress setup. These two plugins are enough for most of the SEO tweaks.

Thats what I am talking about -- the Major search engines don't pay attention about them.. and more than 99% of the traffic is from them. I am also using HeadSpace 2 SEO on Wordpress and the meta keywords don't appear on the page source, no matter what i do.