A Bastian
of crap and unethical search engine optimization companies - the meta -
keywords tag. How many crap seo companies mention cleaning and optimizing this
tag in their presentations? Companies what waste time on these waste clients
money.
<meta
name="keywords" content="seo, search engine optimization, optimization">
I have one
piece of advice with the meta keyword tag, which like the title tag, goes in
the head section of your web page, forget about them.
If you are
relying on meta-keyword optimization to rank for terms, your dead in the water.
From what I see, google + Bing ignores meta keyword - or at least places no
weight in them to rank pages. Yahoo may read them. but rally, a seo has more important
thing to worry about than this nonsense.
What about
other search engines that use the? Hang on while I submit my site to those
75,000 engines first . Yes, 10 years ago search engines liked looking at your
meta-keywords. I've seen Opus in forums ponder which is the best way to write
these tags - with commas, with spaces, limiting to how many characters. Forget
about meta-keyword tags - they are a pointless waste of time and bandwidth.
Could probably save a rain-forest with the bandwidth costs we save if everybody
re
moved
their keyword tags.
Tin
foil hat time
So you
have a new site ...... you fill your home page meta tags with the 20 keywords
you want to rank for - hey, that's what optimization is all about, isn't it?
You've just told Google by the third line of text what to sandbox you for and
wasn't meta name ="Keywords" originally for words that weren't
actually on the page that would help classify the document? Sometime competitors
might use the information in your keywords to determine what you are trying to
rank for, too ...................