I am confused about Meta-Tags, what should I put in my meta-tag keyword and description fields? How important are they?

Meta tags are less important than they used to be. We have a full guide explaining how search engines work which may be of interest for you. There are a number of schools of thought with regard to meta-tags. Most agree they are not very important and they are often misused. If you are wondering what to place in the tags the following advice may be useful: The only use of the META-DESCRIPTION tag is to provide a nice description that may be shown in the search engine results pages (SERPs) of some engines. It will not have any effect on ranking. The META-KEYWORDS tag is even less important. The best advice here is if you are going to use it you should avoid duplicating keywords at all cost.