Are Meta Tags Dead to Google?

While many have been saying for YEARS (and of course not every one listens) but Google does still read and consider certain META tags in the header of a site, in fact, many of them are still quite useful.

Here is Matt Cutts describing the META tags that Google Understands. You can find the full text of the support article here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en