Many seo professionals now days tell you that the meta tags are not important anymore, they are no longer even considered by the big 3. Is this true or could using meta tags some how improve my rankings on any of the search engines? We also see the other extreme, using the meta tags and stuffing them with your keywords will have negative effects on your rankings.

Thankfully we don’t need to guess on this, we have studies which prove in my mind without a doubt where the meta tags stand in this new world of seo.

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You’ve probably heard people say “Google can crawl any language” and they are right, well basically. Nearly any programming language can now be crawled by Google. Google can crawl flash and even javascript now. Thats pretty cool!
But the question is not whether or not they can crawl it but do they treat it the same? Are there pros and cons to using certain programming languages?

In this post I hope to show that just because Google can crawl a language does not mean they treat it the same. Thats right, using a certain programming language may have positive or negative effects. And not necessarily the programming language but how the language is used can also greatly effect your sites indexing and ranking.
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