Google have admitted that they don't bother with keywords meta anymore. I've actually never seen anybody use wildcards before or even heard of such a thing until now. In the early days of search engines there were a lot of proprietary behaviour going on so maybe the developer picked up on something like that. Alternatively it could be something that their CMS does for it's own benefit. Or, maybe the developer just has no clue.
Kind regards, --------------------------------------------------- Keri Henare (Views expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.) [e] [email protected] [m] (+64) 021 874 552 [w] kerihenare.com On 11/11/2009, at 1:47 PM, Dan Khan wrote: > > I was reviewing a charity site recently and found this in the source: > > <meta name="keywords" content="charity*, donat*, fundrais*, sponsor*, > research*"> > > I know that keywords are mostly ignored by search engines nowadays, > but is this valid syntax anyway or just a misunderstanding by the web > devs? > > Cheers, > -Dan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
