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Add You - The Meta Keywords Tag: Use It, or Lose It?
f a web page--rendering the keyword meta tag much less significant. The risks associated with using the meta keywords tag may out way the benefits. Risks
- Using keywords that are not relevant Ah, the meta keywords tag...
I'm surprised to see how many webmasters, still to this day, stuff dozens (and more) keywords into the meta tag in hopes of delivering visitors to a site. Surely, they know by now that this only hurts the chances of qualified visitors finding their site on the search engines. It is debatable whether the meta keywords tag should be used at all anymore. Google reportedly no longer uses the meta keywords tag in determining a site's ranking. Yahoo does still use the meta keywords tag; albeit reportedly places little weight on it. Search engines used to rely heavily on the meta keywords tag in an attempt to determine which keywords were relevant to a web page. Unfortunately, this practice eventually lead to the misuse of the tag. The sophisticated search engines of today are able to examine the actual keywords in the body of a web page--rendering the keyword meta tag much less significant. The risks associated with using the meta keywords tag may out way the benefits. Risks
- Using keywords that are not relevant t
How to Save Green, when Buying BlueIn the mid-Fifteenth Century, when Johann Guttenburg brought moveable type printing to the western world I doubt he envisioned the industry he would create. Today, printing is a significant that this only hurts the chances of qualified visitors finding their site on the search engines.It is debatable whether the meta keywords tag should be used at all anymore. Google reportedly no longer uses the meta keywords tag in determining a site's ranking. Yahoo does still use the meta keywords tag; albeit reportedly places little weight on it. Search engines used to rely heavily on the meta keywords tag in an attempt to determine which keywords were relevant to a web page. Unfortunately, this practice eventually lead to the misuse of the tag. The sophisticated search engines of today are able to examine the actual keywords in the body of a web page--rendering the keyword meta tag much less significant. The risks associated with using the meta keywords tag may out way the benefits. Risks
- Using keywords that are not relevant a keywords tag in determining a site's ranking. Yahoo does still use the meta keywords tag; albeit reportedly places little weight on it.
Search engines used to rely heavily on the meta keywords tag in an attempt to determine which keywords were relevant to a web page. Unfortunately, this practice eventually lead to the misuse of the tag. The sophisticated search engines of today are able to examine the actual keywords in the body of a web page--rendering the keyword meta tag much less significant. The risks associated with using the meta keywords tag may out way the benefits. Risks
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