Hi,

It is a long time that search engines and specially Google don't pay any attention to keyword meta tag but they still use the description meta tag as the description of the websites on their search result pages. Of course, in most search queries, Google displays a part of the body text that includes the search term. So the description is used in some cases only.

On the other hand, I have seen many web pages that have no description meta tag, ranked properly.
So my question is if description meta tag is still important or has lost its role?
Is it effective in the ranking of the websites?

Cheers!

I'll guess that Google does not figure this data (meta description) in it's ranking algorithm. I'll also guess that Google does not figure any information, that you may add to your markup, that does not appear on a typical browser.

Think about it...

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it still play some role. i still using it.

It may not mean much to Google, but other search engines do use it, so don't get rid of it without good reason.

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The value which meta tag description used to get earlier is not the same right now but if the other aspects of SEO are done well you need not worry much about it IMO.

You should keep that mete tag. I think it is useful still. Far not the most important, but it is good if it is there.