Will adding meta-tags to a wordpress site make any difference?

[K B]

[Emma]

Yes, sure!

Meta-tags, meta-title and meta-description are must, if you want your website to be indexed by google bots in the shortest terms.

Also, this is helpful for SEO.

[Darek]

I'd say yes.
From all meta tags the most important one would be the meta description tag which describes the page and gives additional keywords to your content, although search engines don't pay so much attention to meta tags as much, now days, buy you should have them there are still some old search engines that use them to rank a website higher.

[Sudeep]

Meta Tags helps search engine understand what your page is about. It definitely is not a very big advantage as Google is smart enough to pick the content from the page show it as meta tags. According to me the most important aspect would be having a title tag will the relevant keywords for the page.

[Charissa Grandin]

Absolutely! Adding meta-tags to any site will greatly help your SEO and help you get discovered online when people are searching for the keywords that you optimize for. It is an excellent idea to add meta tags to your WordPress site.

You can use the WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast to optimize all your posts for the keywords pertinent to your brand or business and the keywords for which you want to be found. Take some time every month to brainstorm what keywords would best attract your target audience.Then use those keywords each time your optimize a post with the WordPress SEO plugin.

You should also utilize your keywords when you're inserting links into your posts by adding them to the "title" of the link, and do the same for your images as well.