Archive | September, 2009

Says Google: “We don’t use meta keywords tag” Told ya so!

22 Sep

Once again, Jamison/McKay demonstrates our superior knowledge of web development and SEO tactics. Our most recent post has now been officially validated. Not that we were worried or anything. Cause we’s good at what we do. And we knew we was right. But it’s nice to be proven right. In writing.

Google just released a video on YouTube explaining once and for all that they do not use the “keywords” meta tag in their search results. While they do have an application that can match meta tags, it’s not part of the the public’s everyday searches at Google.com, nor part of how they rank pages. HA!

Check out the full article from MarketingVox here: http://www.marketingvox.com/google-we-dont-use-the-meta-keywords-tag-045108/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=mv&utm_medium=textlink

The use of keyword-rich Meta tags will NOT get you a higher search engine ranking. Seriously.

10 Sep

Search engines don’t give much credibility to keyword meta tags anymore as pioneer search engine marketers frequently stuffed em with irrelevant keywords. Eventually search engine providers realized that information stored in meta elements, especially the keywords attribute, was often unreliable and misleading, and at worst, used to draw users into spam sites. Today, the most valuable feature they offer the web site owner is the ability to control, to some degree, how their web pages are described by some search engines.

The meta title, on the other hand, is important for increasing site’s rankings and the meta description is often picked up by the search engine to describe the link.