Meta Tags and content

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Just a question regarding meta tags. I've only ever bothered to put them on the homepage. Should they go on every page with in the entire website, in order to match with the corresponding text on each page?

[Wickham]

I think you should have meta tags on every page, but if all the pages are about the same subject matter, then just repeat the same text.

It has been said that Google takes less notice now of what is said in the meta tag, but you still need something there.

I have noticed with two new websites of mine that it isn't the homepages that have been first linked on Google, it's other pages, so there needs to be a description in a meta tag to show in Google for the pages that Google just happens to show first in a search.