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  • From: Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.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 18:15:05 -0400
Here is my super rough breakdown of the factors involved in good ranking:

30% age of site (older == better)
60% backlinks (quantity, age of link, anchor text, TLD)
10% content on the page


On 4/25/06 6:10 PM, "Calvin Powers" <calvin AT cspowers.com> wrote:

> 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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