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I am fairly new to this ranking on google been reading the forum here but i have a couple questionsafter you submit your listing to google and update your meta tags does it take a long time to show up? or update? thxSometimes...it depends on how established your site is...does google visit daily, weekly, monthly?It will also get updated sooner if you have lots of links from other sites pointing to yours.....this sends the spiders to your site more frequently....this is also better than submitting to google.I usually get meta tag updates within a few days, google visits my site every other day or so....ahhh ok i gotcha thx meta tags are irrelevant to google, they treat them like you'd treat some gum stuck to the floor.The answer here has been gievn - but i thought id confirm - goog;le optimization lies in the quality of links you have pointing at your site.Jess wrote:Ever seen google use a description tag as a listing description?Only when the content only appears in the description.I spoke to a yahoo programmer not so along ago - he told me"seeing as Google doesn't pay attention to the description tag, it would make sense that we put a certain emphesis on it." That tells me enough.Yep your right (your good ), Google only uses it when no content is shown. So some sites, its still a good idea to have it then...for Google.But Yahoo and MSN look very much into the description tag. They use it in many of their listings and I have tested it's use.the description tag is a meta tag...are you saying that it's not relevant?Some people do not consider the title tag to be a metatag.The title tag though, is very very important.I mean t to type desc. tag not title...google lives for the title tag....but I do see instances where google will use the desc. tag even when there's other content on the page that's similar to the users search termsphaugh wrote:"Its better to include metas as engines like yahoo/msn use them heavily." My thoughts exactly.... And I guess it can't hurt to have that extra content hanging around for google to see too.I'd like to know more about your conversations with the yahoo people.......they are a great connection to have!DESCRIPTIONI find absolutely no evidence that Google uses any part of the DESCRIPTION meta tag. A search for my DESCRIPTION on Google does not list any pages indexed from my site.However, other webmasters often use this tag for link text. I guess it is safe to assume the description contains your target keywords. Altavista/Yahoo/MSN all index the DESCRIPTION meta tag, and a search on these sites shows plenty of indexed pages.KEYWORDSKEYWORDS really is ignored by all search engines ... but it is good documentation for the page designer.Sometimes it helps to remember which pages target which keywords.UPDATE Jess has a really good article showing Yahoo DOES look at this tag for matching search queries. TITLETITLE is used by all search engines for result links (Search Results Title)ROBOTSROBOTS is respected by most search engines.AUTHORSome SEO experts like to use the author meta tag but I have seen no benefit. I think it is just an ego thing cause they get to put their name in the page. Are there any others that are worth mentioning?Ive seen the description tag being used if a page has no text... or if the search term only appears in the description and not on the page....Yahoo uses keywords.... I have word from them direct they do But they treat them the same way they treat content on your page.. no extra weight is given to them... or no less weight.Yahoo encourage people to use the keyword tags for mis-spelled words of your targeted key-phrases.I.e - the keywords tag are an "can also rank for" tag.I have an article somewhere from the conversations i've had with a yahoo programmer... will dig it out.http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/april_2004.htmlNot my article but a good one.Quote: