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Newbie; Meta Tags and Search Engines

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saxonomy

saxonomy

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Dec 15, 2003
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Hello All,

I am kind of a newbie. I finished a site. How do I put keywords as metatags. even more, are they helpful to increase the chances of search engines finding your site?

I know very little about this. I am a fast learner.

Would appreciate it if someoen shed s little light on this for me.

Thank You

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Meta keywords are all but useless for search engines now. because of the abuse they are ignored by nearly all major engines for ranking and results.

They can still be used, but correctly in the form;
<meta name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;list of keywords/phrases&quot;>
250 characters should be considered the maximum length and many of the keywords should appear on the same page. Even though the meta tag content is not used primarily, it is still read and may raise &quot;spam&quot; flags that could get other page factors devalued.



Chris.

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How do you do it? Like Chris says, in the <head> section of your document you put:
[tt]
<meta name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;this, that, the other&quot;>
[/tt]
Will it make any difference to search engines? No it won't. See the article at for more info.

Personally, I don't think it's worth spending any time on meta keywords - if you must, pick a few that apply to your whole site and use them on all pages.

I think the meta description element:
[tt]
<meta name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;A page about this, that and the other&quot;>
[/tt]
is still worth putting in as I believe some search engines still use it to display in their results.

-- Chris Hunt
 
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