No, sometimes they are well into the hundreds, but I've heard that SE's only check the first few lines of the keywords tag. Whether it's true or not true, who knows. But suffice to say the most important keywords should be listed first.
I get "AdWords" and "AdSense" confused. If Adwords is the one where ads are placed on your website, I DESPISE THEM. This caused me to lose my site's search function. For years I used Atomz, then the jerks decided they were going from free, to several hundred bucks a year. If you still wanted to use them for free, they FORCED you to put not just any ads at on your results page, (which of course I would GLADLY have done), but ads FROM YOUR COMPETITORS! Jerks. Who the hell is going to be selling "blue widgets", and WANT on their results pages: "BIG SALE ON BLUE WIDGETS, BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!!!!!!" and it's from some OTHER website! For informational ONLY websites, they should be fine since there are no real "competitors" in the sense that you're not in the business of "selling" anything. You may also be able to control what ads are displayed, that I don't know. But I do know in my case above, they claimed they "could not control the content of the ads" which I think is BS, for how would they know which ads to display in the first place if they could not control them? -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) http://ComputersCustomBuilt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the thorough explanation. The woman whose page I'm working on has 98 keywords, all unique. Would you say 98 is a bit overkill? <G> What do you think of Google AdWords? Vern ----- Original Message ----- From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" > Whomever you ask, where ever you ask, you'll get a different > answer. Every HTML email list has constant ongoing debates > on > this topic. But I've never heard the limit that low, even > the > title tag can stand more than that. A few things are for > sure......there's several types of meta tags. For starters > there's the: > > <title>Your words here</title> > <meta name="description" content="Your Words here Your Words > here"> > <meta name="keywords" content="your words here, your words, > here, your, words, here"> > > There's generally more characters/words in the tags from top > to > bottom as shown there. SE's are seemingly putting less and > less precedence on tags' structure, page structure, AND > content. They seem to be moving towards popularity, and > that's > it. Test it yourself. Go to any SE, search for some things > at > random, and study the HTML code of the top ranking pages. > Depending on what you search for, some won't even have meta > tags! Or, some may have them and they will be incorrect; in > the wrong places, structured wrong, etc. However it's never > a > BAD idea to use the tags, unless they are blatantly not used > correctly to the point of possible penalty. Using my text in > this paragraph, here's some examples: > > <title>There's generally more characters/words in the tags > from > top to bottom as shown there. SE's are seemingly putting > less > and less precedence on tags' structure, page structure, AND > content.</title> > <meta name="description" content="They seem to be moving > towards popularity, and that's it. Test it yourself. Go to > any SE, search some things at random, and study the HTML code > of the top ranking pages. Some won't even have meta tags! > Or, > some may have them and they will be incorrect; in the wrong > places, structured wrong, etc"> > <meta name="keywords" content="There's generally, more > characters, words, in the tags, from top, to bottom, as shown > there, SE's are, seemingly putting less, and less, precedence > on tags, structure, page structure, AND content, They seem, > to > be, moving towards, popularity, and, that's it, However, it's > never, a BAD, idea, to use, the tags, unless they are, > blatantly, not, used, correctly to the, point, of possible, > penalty, Using, my text, in this paragraph, here's some > examples"> > > It's a good idea to have some of your title's most important > words or phrases and description's most important words or > phrases AS keywords in the "keywords" meta tag. The tags > above > are good tags. > > These are not so good: > > <title>Word</title> > <meta name="description" content="Your Words here Your Words > here Your Words here Your Words here Your Words here Your > Words > here"> > <meta name="keywords" content="your words here, your words, > here, your, words, here, your words here, your words, here, > your, words, here, your words here, your words, here, your, > words, here"> > > The title tag above is not descriptive enough. The > description > tag is too repetitive, the same thing over and over. The > keywords tag is also too repetitive with the same words over > and over. > -Clint > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Anyone know if having too many words in the Meta Tag area is > anathema to web > crawlers? I read having more than 15-20 is bad. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? 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