[mk2phil]

Are the following meta declarations needed - what do they do that makes them advantageous/recommended?

<meta name="title" content="blah.co.uk" />
<meta name="owner" content="blah" />
<meta name="copyright" content="blah" />
<meta name="author" content="me" />

Thanks

[finbarr]

title most definitely.The rest are superfluous

[skyrocket]

IMO I would say that none of those meta tags are needed or are useful these days. The meta description tag is useful to provide a descriptive sentence under the SERP (search engine page result) but I can't see how those meta tags you've mentioned would have relevance to someone like Google. The page title, h1 and header tags and linkage data are the most important elements in most major search algorithms at the moment. You could look into "Dublin Core" metadata. This is a good article.

[mantramalhotra]

i Agree with Skyrocket

But with "page title, h1 and header tags and linkage data", Mata Keywords are equally important

- Mantra

[pgo]

Not really - not anymore, at least.

[emil]

can't do any harm, now can they?

[pgo]

Originally Posted by emilpaun

can't do any harm, now can they?

Meta tags killed my father and raped my mother.

So, yes.

[emil]

Originally Posted by pgo

Meta tags killed my father and raped my mother.

So, yes.

I think you need another vacation