Meta tags not neccesarry anymore?

If I may i would like to address this.

meta tags should include the following, your site description-this is what the serach engine sees and then produces in the serach results relevant to your site. Keywords do make a difference in your rank but not just the meta tag it is relative keyword content that seacrh engines like for instance if you own a site called thisismywebsitecom in your body of the page should be like welcome to this is my site.com this is my site.com offers a wide array of services....etc relevancy is what gives you position.this is my former expertise b4 transitioning into IM, you should have a meta tag called author why author? because it is copyright proof.
you can also include one called contact with your email address in it-optional completely
one for category-optional) and one for the spiders to return recommended it would look like this.<meta name="robots" description="index,follow" content="return after 7 days"> this tells the search engine spider to come back every week and re index your site. keywords are not as powerful as so many make out the main way to get your site in good position is by having a ton of backlinks to it i.e. other sites linking to yours . if you disregard meta tags spiders will not index your site nor be able to give a description of what your site is about
as an example you can google Memberprods-Main-signup and it will come up with my site description this is my own site i receive nothing for posting it but it is a clear example as to what your site looks like to the search engines.
however it is a plug ..
have a Merry Christmas!
-WD