It is my firm belief that attempts to game the keywords meta tag
demonstrate nothing more than a failure to understand SEO. The keyword
meta tag has some relevance in some search marketing situations, but
there is no reason for it not to simply list a small number of relevant
keywords separated with commas. Of course there are always hacks and
exploits, so if you enjoy chasing those ignore my comment because I know
of no such opportunity with this.
As for penalties, stuffing your keyword meta tag shouldn't hurt you at
all, but it might earn you a reputation for not understanding SEO. I
know some SEOs who use the keywords meta tag to mislead their competitors.
As for comments, yes that can earn a serious response from search
engines. Not so much because it works, but because it demonstrates an
obvious intent to game the system. please don't tell that realtor. It's
better for all of us if those spamming realtors stay out of the
legitimate search results.
Happily submitted......
john andrews
SEO and competitive web consultant in Seattle
blogging on issues of Competitive Webmastering at www.johnon.com
Peter Sawczynec ps-at-sun-code.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal group
use| wrote:
Recently I was examining some meta data and found some meta data
keywords entered like so [meta data snippet]:
"mountainview+real+estate, orange+real+estate, las vegas".
Is this keyword with plus signs entry style attempting to:
a) literally match users entering "mountainview+real+estate" as a search
term,
b) attempting to match any occurrences of those three words and any
other words (noise) entered in between (Can this actually work in meta
data?),
or
c) trying to communicate to the search engine (google) to accept these
meta data keywords as a keyword phrase?
Additionally, what is the attempted result of extra keywords being
loaded into the Head section as a comment like so:
<!-- real estate, mountainview, broker, country homes -->
Would the above comments effort lead to search engine penalty?
If you can provide some info I'd appreciate hearing.
Warmest regards,
Peter Sawczynec
Technology Dir.
Sun-code Interactive
Sun-code.com
646.316.3678
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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