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  • From: David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags
  • Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:03:27 -0400

On 04/24/06 11:00 PM, "Calvin Powers" <calvin AT cspowers.com> wrote:

> 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?

Also, it matters where the terms appears on your page. If the text you want
to be found by is in Headlines, it counts for more than in paragraphs. If
for no other reason, this is why it is good to use headline tags for markup.

While not on page, if it is in your Title tag, it counts for more than on
page.

It is my understanding that Meta Keywords don't count for much, if anything.

At least, that is how it used to be--things change in SEO pretty quickly.
How old were the books you read?

David

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