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Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

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Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Jw — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:17:53 -0000

I've just spent ages tagging up a client's website!

On the bright side it will now save some SEO effort.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Used cars by owner — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:54:04 -0000

Google is daily updating its algorithm and it makes sense with the current criteria of search results. These varying patterns for search results almost make difference in search ranking as well.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

seowizzards — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:46:11 -0000

hate to say it, but well DAH...... this is old news. Yahoo and Bing may still look at it though....

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Andreas — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:05:23 -0000

This is simply not true. Meta keywords have helped my sites for many years. And I added a few relevant meta keywords to a site and Google traffic is up 30 - 40 % after two weeks.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

nickmattern — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:19:33 -0000

While the META tags don't help you rank, they DO play a role with conversions and in getting people into your site. Description tags for the SERP returned URL, especially in a highly competitive query, can greatly influence what SERP result the user clicks on. The key is to test-test-test-test and test some more!

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

MarketingTide — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:45:50 -0000

As the post said, most webmasters have known about this for years, however I almost always include a keywords tag, not for Google but for other search engines and there are many other sites/directories that crawl pages and actually use the keywords tag, so it's a good idea to include it for what it's worth...interesting video, thanks for posting!

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Ryan Lalonde — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:44:08 -0000

Well, meta tags are a really cheap way to get traffic to your website. It's good that Google doesn't use them.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

jubo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:50:10 -0000

MMMMMMmmmm, yet most of the 'Gurus' are still telling 'newbies' about keywords, must use them etc.
http://www.foracnenomore.com

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Gary Taylor — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:48:53 -0000

As long as big sites like Amazon.com and Ebay.com continue to use them, they still get my vote. And of course Google still uses them on their Analytics site.

All together now!...You can't get better than a nice bit of Meta! La La La La Laaa!

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Jeremy Young — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:43:15 -0000

lol

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Pete Prodoehl — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:39:00 -0000

Crap! I actually put the entire contents of all my pages into the meta tags, hoping that would help things...

I can't believe I paid $50,000 for advice like that... I'll be firing my SEO guy now. :(

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Jeremy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:26:20 -0000

I feel like the guy who has to constantly send his family links to Snopes.

http://www.seomoz.org/artic...

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Sendn — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:20:30 -0000

Good, meta tags aren't needed anymore. Content and links matter more.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Randy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:13:52 -0000

Does this include the "meta description?"

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Name — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:12:16 -0000

With a Google Pagerank of 2, you really have to be the best!

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

complexity0 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:29:29 -0000

Descriptions I'm going to let you finish but keywords had one of the best SEO of all time.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Σχολή Χορού — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:17:20 -0000

The Google stuff got pretty strict lately, I broke my ban record yesterday, getting ban in 3 hours after making my site live and got it indexed :(
20 fresh euros in vain ...

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Paola Wolowitz — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:03:22 -0000

Finally! This was known for while after mysteriously dropping "keyword" optimized sites across about 7 months ago.

URL and domains are more important than ever. Not to mention content =) Hoorrraay!!

Thank you Matt, I hope your cat is doing well.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

@JoeHobot — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:19:23 -0000

He is a dumbSEOass , keywords are not for freaking google "ranking" , I experiment this on so many blogs/sites. The thing is that it puts your blog/site in the right category. If you write about fashion you can't put keywords like google, social networking, spam :)

Keywords are most likely used for adsense, adwords purposes from my own experience if blog/site had no keywords it took 20 minutes to update the adwords.

With keywords took 1 second.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Jeremy Roberts — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:17:14 -0000

good to know... I was about to spend a few nights updating meta tags on our ecommerce site...

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Ediciuz — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:13:08 -0000

I kinda figured as much, with the proper algorithm the SE can figure out what your keywords should be. Plus the majority of sites I look at (both huge and small) have no metatags. The only reason a big company wouldn't include metatags for SEO is if they insignificant to SEO placement.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

brettburky — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:10:09 -0000

I knew it, I knew it. I guess I should stop keyword stuffing my meta tags. JK.

I seem to only use the meta description as a sort of adwords ad. With a call to action and phone number or something of the like. This has been known for a while, you just never heard it straight from the source till now.

Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

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Re: Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Jacob Brown Designs — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:03:30 -0000

LOL...this is no change. Google claims to change it's algorithms, but I don't believe it. I haven't changed my website in months yet I continue to stay on top of the competition.