Comments on: Google Says No to Meta Keywords Tag

By: html meta tags

html meta tags — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:30:08 +0000

It’s indeed a great post. Very informative. Very enlightening. Thanks for posting…

By: How to Start a SEO Campaign | KPMRS Blog

How to Start a SEO Campaign | KPMRS Blog — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:00:44 +0000

[...] Google has said they do not read meta tags content but we still advise to put your targeted keywords in [...]

By: Gerry Williams

Gerry Williams — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:38:45 +0000

Strange that there is no mention in the Blog or comments with respect to the #2 engine – Yahoo. Here is a recent link (the answer appears to be yes but VERY LOW in importance). http://www.highposition.net/article/yahoo-u-turn-on-keywords-meta-tag/4561514

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:12:10 +0000

So, it’s finally official. It seems that the search engines have been ignoring meta kws since I can remember. Why wouldn’t they?

By: Art Hendela

Art Hendela — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:55:39 +0000

My feeling is that you should keep the keyword tag. When you go to a page to help an SEO client, the keyword tag is a help in analysis to see how well the content matches their intent. In academic journals, keywords are still use to help categorize an article. If there is no harm for Google and may help in other search engines, then definately keep the the tag. An extra couple hundred bytes is not going to impact page performance significantly.

By: alejogomez

alejogomez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:16:57 +0000

Very intersting articles. Beyond how useful keywords are for search engine rankings, I do believe they contribute to your critical thinking. The exercise of identifying meaningful keywords (and description) gives you an opportunity to distance yourself of the copy-editing of your content and analyze it from a different perspective. Keywords give you the oportunity to become your own judge of your content and review its quality. It is up to you to be thorough, consistent and why not- honest!

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:50:54 +0000

Well, i think there is no harm in following META, and yes it hardly affects page load also.

By: Angstcorner

Angstcorner — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:08:59 +0000

That’s true Google not recognize now Meta Keywords. Except Google other search engines are considering meta keywords.

By: Fadi

Fadi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:02:33 +0000

Google and many SE have said no for meta tags long time ago. the only tags that matters now is your description tag since with it you can capture the attention of the searcher, not Google.

By: Skip Nusbaum

Skip Nusbaum — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:08:42 +0000

Great article and well presented! My gut feeling is that the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet? As we still have LSI, Silos and a myriad of other slice & dice approaches still circling I believe it will remain musical chairs for awhile longer? To me the jury is still out and I plan on keeping keyword meta tags in place until rankings start to take a pronounced turn? I can wait for more concrete evidence.