The response:
The purpose of the inclusion of Meta Keywords is to cater for older
search engines that are still using meta tags. The Meta Keywords tag
allows [ClientName] to define which search terms are important to their
web page. Yahoo actually uses the meta keywords tag to see if a site
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:51:49 +1000 (EST), Martin Jopson wrote:
The response:
Thank you for finalising the info - we were all hanging out to hear
what nonsense they would claim :)
The thread is still closed, guys!
Offlist, if you want to discuss it!
warmly,
Lea
WSG Core Group
If you mean for search engines, then yes, I think you are correct.
However, there may be other valid reasons for using metadata.
Does anyone remember when Anil Dash (from Six Apart) beat out 2 SEO
companies and won a SEO competition in 2004?
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/07/27/optimizing_sear
Hi Martin,
On 10/7/05, Martin Jopson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could anyone please clarify the situation for Meta Keywords and also Meta
Description. If possible also a web resource that states clearly these
issues.
Others have already given a range of good responses. To add to the
discussion
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:30:16 +0800, Kay Smoljak wrote:
Others have already given a range of good responses. To add to the
discussion I believe that the search engine Sensis uses the meta
keywords tag, although I cannot remember where I picked up that idea.
Yep, it seems they do - googling shows
Well, I just had it pointed out to me (You're an evil man, Bert ;))
that we really haven't managed to bring this one on-topic, so I think
the thread should be closed.
Lea
~ oops
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WSG Core member
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 20:52:35 +1000, Lea de Groot wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:30:16 +0800, Kay
Just wanted to clarify this area with some references.
Meta keywords - no - no search engine publically acknowdges that they refer to them.
Meta descriptions - yes - see below - but DMoz is often a factor as well
Meta robots - yes - see below
1. you can use robots.txt OR meta robots:
[quote]Use
Plus there's the added notion that Meta Tags *in and of themselves*
are a good thing to put in a page (as any librarian will tell you).
Plus there's no way of knowing what future technologies can put these
to good use.
I agree with Richard, and this is what the Dublin Core Meta Data is all
Well, I think the answer is a yes and no.
Google I don't think reads or puts any weight on the meta tags at all.
It does read a couple of meta tags like the 'revisit' meta tag and a
couple of others but not description or keywords. Google goes more by
link popularity and keyword density in
Martin,
However, I have just received a document from a client who has been
advised by a search engine optimisation specialist [hitwise] to add
specific Meta Keywords to pages in their site.
Get them to ask Hitwise to justify the recommendation, based on
anything other than handwaving and
On 10/7/05, John Allsopp wrote:
Get them to ask Hitwise to justify the recommendation, based on
anything other than handwaving and superstition.
I'd be interested in their response :-)
I think it is safe to say that we would *all* be interested in their
response, if they prepare one at all...
I second that.
Buddy
John Allsopp wrote:
Martin,
However, I have just received a document from a client who has been
advised by a search engine optimisation specialist [hitwise] to add
specific Meta Keywords to pages in their site.
Get them to ask Hitwise to justify the recommendation,
-Original Message-
From: Martin Jopson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 7 October 2005 2:23 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Meta Keywords?
During one of Tantek's seminars at WE05, I assumed I was the
last person
in the world to learn that Meta Keywords
So, from John Derek's responses, am I correct in thinking there's no use
for the Meta Keywords or Meta Description tags anymore?
Any web resources/ reference for this information?
I'd like a bit more knowledge before questioning Hitwise.
Thanks
Martin
On 10/7/05, Martin Jopson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, from John Derek's responses, am I correct in thinking there's no use
for the Meta Keywords or Meta Description tags anymore?
Any web resources/ reference for this information?
I'd like a bit more knowledge before questioning Hitwise.
In
2:59 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Meta Keywords?
I would advise anybody against taking Meta Tags (description and
keywords)
out of their sites. Although major search engines have publicly declared
that they put less emphasis on the tags, there are still search engines
around
On 10/7/05, Martin Jopson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, from John Derek's responses, am I correct in thinking there's no use
for the Meta Keywords or Meta Description tags anymore?
Meta description is important! It's the one that Google uses when
displaying results. You can do a quick summary
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To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Meta Keywords?
So, from John Derek's responses, am I correct in thinking there's no use
for the Meta Keywords or Meta Description tags anymore?
Any web resources/ reference
-Original Message-
From: Richard Czeiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 7 October 2005 3:09 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Meta Keywords?
I'd have to agree with Andreas here.
Wile for Ranking purposes they're not terribly important, at least
From: James Bennett
In my experience, they still read the Description tag, but don't
necessarily take it into account for ranking purposes; if the
Description is present it will be included in the excerpt shown in the
search result.
That matches my experience too.
--
Peter Williams
Derek Featherstone wrote:
On 10/7/05, John Allsopp wrote:
Get them to ask Hitwise to justify the recommendation, based on
anything other than handwaving and superstition.
I'd be interested in their response :-)
I think it is safe to say that we would *all* be interested in their
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