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••••••>SEO Tip of the Day: Valuing Meta Keyword Tags

Written by: David Josephson

Article Overview: Meta tag became a source of spam where web users flood the tag with misleading keywords to be listed on search results even if their site is not related to what keywords being searched.

••••••>SEO Tip of the Day: Valuing Meta Keyword Tags

When search engines were starting up, they indexed meta keywords heavily. Until now, many still think that placing “money words” in meta keywords tags will help boost page rankings. Eventually, this meta tag became a source of spam where web users flood the tag with misleading keywords to be listed on search results even if their site is not related to what keywords being searched.

Google has for the most part decreased the importance of the meta keyword tags in their algorithm while Yahoo continues to still place a bit more weighting on meta keyword tags. Interestingly, MSN places a fairly high value on meta keywords. As search engines become smarter, they can pick out keywords from the website’s content without having to reference meta keywords tags for the relevance of the pages. Yahoo indexes only up to 500 characters of meta keywords, while Google generally does not index meta keywords at all.

It is best to assume minimal importance to meta keyword tags. If you know some money “keywords”, do not put them in your meta keyword tag. Putting them in your source code could increases the risk of these words being stolen and other websites can copy your keywords to use them for their own advantage.

In summation utilizing SEO best practices the Meta Keyword Tag though utilized by the search engines, in order to achieve the best rankings possible it is always a good idea to make sure your web site and your SEO efforts incorporate as many of the SEO tips that Get Me On Top provide. To assure top web site rankings, the best bet is to higher a professional SEO firm or SEO company with verifiable results to assure that your web site achieves top rankings in the search engines.

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