Death of a Meta TagTraffick.com's Andrew Goodman wrote recently in an essay about meta tags, "If somebody would just declare the end of the metatag era, full stop, it would make it easier on everyone."I'm happy to oblige, at least in the case of the meta keywords tag. Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine, Inktomi, the value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth the time. In my opinion, the meta keywords tag is dead, dead, dead. Like Andrew, I say good riddance!

Another article on the death of metatags as a tool for search engine placement....