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Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywordstags

From: Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ idodesign AT earthlink.net, " <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywordstags
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:41:04 -0400

> In response to your last question, the answer is 'no'. Only if you have both
> "foo bar" in the meta tag and inside the document body will it pick up the
> terms as a pair.

Actually a page can rank for the term "foo bar" even if neither "foo" or
"bar" appear anywhere on the page. For example, you won't find the word
"failure" anywhere in the source code for the first page found in this
query:

http://www.google.com/search?q=failure

Its a result of Google bombing, which is many links pointing to the site
with the anchor text "failure".

>
> Susan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Calvin
> Powers
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:01 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and
> keywordstags
>
>
> 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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[internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Calvin Powers, 04/24/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Steven Champeon, 04/25/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Tony Spencer, 04/25/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywordstags, Susan LaBarre, 04/25/2006
  - Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywordstags, Tony Spencer, 04/25/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Michael Czeiszperger, 04/25/2006
- Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, David Minton, 04/25/2006
  - Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Calvin Powers, 04/25/2006
    - Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Tony Spencer, 04/25/2006
      - Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Steven Champeon, 04/25/2006
        
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Tony Spencer, 04/25/2006
        
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Tony Spencer, 04/25/2006
        
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Scott, 04/25/2006
        
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Tony Spencer, 04/25/2006
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Scott, 04/25/2006