Does anybody know if it is recommended to use "meta tag tools"? I am not knowing so much about Meta Tags and it seems even their is much confusion about there usefulness.

Conclusion seems to be from my own research that although "some engines such as Google" do not give much importance, if any, to meta tags there are many different/smaller search engines and directories that actually do, so it is worth while doing apparantly.

I also tried to submit my site to one and got rejected because the meta tags were not properly done.

Does anybody know of the easiest one to use? I had a look at mixcats but it has boxes for "generator" and "date" and these are things I have no idea about.

Rgds

The only METAs you need worry about: Title, Description, Keywords (for Yahoo not Google). The rest can be basically ignored because almost all of your results will come from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask (usually in that order). Others may have additionals, but I focus on the above.

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Thanks SEO AM,

As an interesting point I will try to find the search engine that said my meta's were not good enough!! It is kind of used apparantly as a test to see if your meta tags are ok, its not a major engine but it rejected all of my sites .
Just when you think you are getting the hang of it, to get rejected is rather demoralizing.

Here: Anybody who thinks their met tags are in acceptable order then please try to submit to this small but significant directory: it is free but will reject you if your meta tags are not in place http://www.aeiwi.com/

No problem. Thanks for the link. I was not in that directory.

Edit: If you want a good meta tag tool, use this one: http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html. I use it on all my pages although the importance of tags has diminished. It will get you by all search engines.

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Thanks for the tip.

Incidentally may we know please??? Did you get accepted? Alot of people do not get accepted into that one due to their thinking mistakenly they have good and correct Metas.

Don't worry if you are not having your metas in order I think it is very common not to get listed first time around in that site. In fact I got the details from an SEO persons site and they purposely use that one as a way to "test" your Metas.

I was accepted on the second attempt. I was forced to write a new lengthly description.

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Phwew! I was thinking I am the only one who got rejected rejected around here!!

When I said "No problem" in my prior post I meant it went through the first time.

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Yeah but I bet my Meta Tags are bigger than yours! and more interesting as well!!