Well there you go. The Electric Toolbox comes up just about anytime I search for anything so Chris must know a thing or two about SEO. I highly doubt that Google have paid much attention to keywords meta in the last decade. Once it started getting abused it became pointless.
--------------------------------------------------- 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 3:07 PM, Chris Hope wrote: > >> Google have admitted that they don't bother with keywords meta anymore. > > Yep, right here: > http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html > > And it's commonly believed that none of the major search engines have > bothered about the keywords meta tag for a number of years. > >> 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. > > Sounds like the latter to me :) > > Regards, > Chris > > -- > Chris Hope > The Electric Toolbox Ltd > > Email: [email protected] > Web: www.electrictoolbox.com > Phone: +64 9 522 9531 > Mobile: +64 21 866 529 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
