Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> At 02:40 PM 5/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >Our client's existing web site has a long list of meta tag
> keywords, maybe
> >200 or so. Is that risky? Likely to be interpreted as spamming the
> >spiders? How many is the recommended max?
>
> The max allowable by the search engines is 250. The max number of
> like-keywords is -recommended- at three. That's because of the varying
> regulations of the different engines. Some allow up to 7 repetitions while
> others, like AltaVista, consider more than three "keyword
> spamming" and you
> will either be bumped to the bottom of the list or in serious
> cases, banned
> from listing there.
Is the number of keywords counted according to comma-delimiters, as in:
"potato salad, prune juice" = 2 count
or is it by spaces between words, ignoring commas, as in:
"potato salad, prune juice" = 4 count
On a side note, does anyone know if using plural _and_singular versions of
keywords matter, or do all engines look for substrings starting with the
first letter of the word? At this point I think they do matter, especially
if someone uses "quotes" around their plural keyword. Anyone know if I'm
right, wrong, somewhere in-between?
TIA,
Jack
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