merlin wrote... Google and other search engines mostly ignored them. Often, having a h1 and h2 is better than having meta keywords.
No, meta
description is a key *component*, e.g.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html. meta
keywords are (most likely) ignored by Google, etc.
It's not an 'either / or' with H1, etc. - all of these things assist in good SERPs and should be used. Also, it's not just an issue of SEO - it aids accessibility of pages and is simply 'good' web design.
merlin wroteIt is good idea to put a constant info there ...
It's not a good idea for meta description - it needs to reflect the content of the page.
Ideally all of this would not require users to find, install and configure a plugin.