In the past, search engines were using mainly meta tags for their scoring algorithms. However, their importace is far less nowadays.
However, you should have meta tags. Meta tags still included in ranking algorithm, they may help a little in ranking. Furthermore, search engines use the meta tag description in the snippet on their result pages. If you write persuasive meta tags, you may gain more convergence.
Make sure that your meta tags related to your page, it is very trivial to detect if it is not related by search engines.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
[...] Meta tags description and keywords. [...]