Why you shouldn't give a toss about the meta keywords tag

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Why you shouldn't give a toss about the meta keywords tag

09-07-2007, 02:21 PM,

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Why you shouldn't give a toss about the meta keywords tag

Quote:If there's anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it's the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It's practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this article, I'll explain more about why you shouldn't worry about it except perhaps for misspellings, as well as which search engines support it.

The meta keywords tag is one of several of meta tags that you can insert into your web pages to provide search engines with information about your pages that isn't visible on the page itself. For example, my Meta Robots Tag 101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages & More article covers how you can use a different meta tag -- the meta robots tag -- to block pages from being indexed. Users don't see this information (unless they look at your source code), but search engines do...

full article: http://searchengineland.com/070905-194221.php

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