Yes they were downgraded by Google, but they are still important. I would not just stop using them. Search engines still reference the H1 tags to get an idea of what your site is about.
While meta tags aren't exactly anything important to Google anymore, it still is for other search engines. Putting up some meta tags won't hurt your website, right?
It's good to still use META Tags, they ain't a complete waste of time. Even though your site content is more important, it's good to have good meta tags to show correctly on search results.
While meta tags aren't exactly anything important to Google anymore, it still is for other search engines. Putting up some meta tags won't hurt your website, right?
These meta tags can be used in todays world control the behavior of search engine crawling and indexing. The robots meta tag applies to all search engines, while the "googlebot" meta tag is specific to Google. The default values are "index, follow" (the same as "all") and do not need to be specified.