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1. No main search engine uses meta keywords anymore
2. The description tag is swiftly heading the same way. On all new sites I don't bother with the description tag anymore and they all get well placed on the SE's regardless.
3. From the experiments I've been using even the Title tag isn't playing as much of a part as it used to and on Google part of the last major update for some search phrases are ignoring the title tag comepletly.
The Title tag is starting to look like it might be heading the same way as the other tags. It's just as abused as the keyword and description tags were so it is something that is going to happen at some point regardless.
The best thing you can do is to concertrate on the text on your page. As long as the Title tag is short (8 to 10 words max) is different on each page you'll go far.
Simon.
And then what? If search engines didn't use tags in the code, and they didn't use body text, the only variable left standing is incoming links. Google already put too much weight on this, and many believe this is what will be their downfall: Google unlikely to win search war [netimperative.com]