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

From: "Calvin Powers" <calvin AT cspowers.com>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:10:30 -0400

The book I was reading is _The Non-Designer's Web Book_ which came out
in 2000. So perhaps not the best reference on this subject.

For the record, I'm not trying to artificially inflate my page
rankings. I'm just trying to understand what The Right Thing To Do is.

Sounds like I can leave the keyword and description meta tags in there
and they won't do any harm though they may have little to no effect.
I've reworked all my title pages to ensure they are meaningful. But I
should probably rethink some of my page text so that the more
meaningful stuff comes first on the page at least as far as how google
sees it.

Interesting stuff this SEO business.
Calvin

On 4/25/06, David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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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[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
        
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Jim Ray, 04/26/2006
        
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Tony Spencer, 04/26/2006
        Re: [internetworkers] Question about <META> description and keywords tags, Steven Champeon, 04/26/2006