How to space keywords? 1

[DrySnot]

What do I use to separate my keywords or does it matter do I use a space or a ; or a , or a : or a combination?

<meta name="keywords" content="#" />



Also do you guys know of any good tool to help choose keywords?

Thanks

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[johnwm]

Keywords are probably less important than they used to be. They should be separated with commas.

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[DrySnot]

Thank you so much thats what I needed to know.

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[ChrisHunt]

Seperate them however you like, search engines will still ignore them.

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[DrySnot]

They help a little right?

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[ChrisHirst]

No

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[roshaoar]

only yahoo I think - -G- even goes to far as to penalise you if you use keys not on the page.

 

[ChrisHirst]

Don't be ridiculous!

Search Engines actually suggest that you put mis-spellings, synonyms etc that ARE NOT on the page in the meta keyword element.


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[roshaoar]

It's a long-standing subject of controversy actually:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/28356.htm

You can probably find a similar thread on every SEO forum =).

Bottom line is Yahoo is still a yes, but Google we don't really know, and since we don't know, then my approach would be to 'nuke em nowadays - why add unneccessary pageweight.

It was so easy 10 years ago to get rank using keywords hence they downgraded their value - which was the right thing to do. And keyword stuffing & spamming is still used by SEOs who are behind the curve, so it's reasonable to think that -G- and Y! probably do have some algorithm to deal with that - so my personal preference would be to play safe =)

But your mileage may vary

 

[roshaoar]

btw, wanted to add, one question that always bugged me for years was about how to use these with phrases. Say your page is about tall green widgets, do you do <keywords="tall,green,widgets">, or do you do <keywords="tall green widgets">. For what it's worth, it's the latter.