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  • From: "Calvin Powers" <calvin AT cspowers.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags
  • Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:00:55 -0400

Howdy all,

I've read in several web books that it is important that I create META
tags for keywords and description information for my web pages so that
search engines will index my site more accurately. So I diligently did
this, but based on my informal experiments it seems that my site pages
are coming up less that ever, not more.

My question is this. When I put a <META name="keywords"
content="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3"> tag in my <HEAD> section, are
these keywords _in addition_ to the keywords that a search engine will
build for my site or are these keywords _instead of_ the keywords
found on the site?

In other words, suppose I have the word "foo" in my page text and and
I have a meta keyword tag for "bar". Will search engines register both
foo and bar or just bar?

any insights, on or off list, would be greatly appreciated!
Calvin




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