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2007-02-23, 11:00 AM | #1 |
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meta keywords for SEO
When putting in meta keywords for say a "big cock" site, which of the following is better and why? Is there a better way than either?
<META name="keywords" CONTENT="big, cock, massive, large, huge, dicks"> META name="keywords" CONTENT="big cocks, massive dicks, huge cocks, large dicks"> Do SE's see single words or groups of words? Do commas affect things? |
2007-02-23, 12:30 PM | #2 | |
Don't get discouraged; it's usually the last key that opens the lock...
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The reason is because that is what my CoffeeCup html editor gives me when I insert the code for metas. I don't like the way that other version looks you have there, but I'm not sure if anything is wrong with it or not. Are you asking if the SE's can see phrases as well? I'm not sure about commas, but have heard rumors about them being stop characters? I'm not sure on that tho, I've used both variations on that. |
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2007-02-23, 01:46 PM | #3 |
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I use both:
<META name="description" CONTENT="pictures of a girl fucking a big cock"> <META name="keywords" CONTENT="big cock, huge cock, massive dick"> <meta name="classification" content="Adult"> <!--xxx rated--> <!--adults only--> "Description" for a sentence and "keywords" for words. I just don't know if words in keywords means individual words or if combinations or words works |
2007-02-23, 02:15 PM | #4 |
Kids are great, Appu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all
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This is a long story. SE Optimization is not something you can do within 3 minutes. Go and search a bit for it, read some articles and start testing it with a site which isn't that important and you can burn it at the se's. Just keep in mind, if you are going deeper into it, do not expect any good results within 6 months. Even you have optimized a page it could take month's before the results are getting reflect within the search engines
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2007-02-23, 02:48 PM | #5 | |
Don't get discouraged; it's usually the last key that opens the lock...
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I agree with what you say here, but Google is pretty quick about showing results of your changes imho. I think most of the other se's are very slow however. Just my 2 cents. |
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2007-02-23, 03:04 PM | #6 | |
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LOL I wonder if they have one of those "Dummies" books. I can see it now, "SEO For Dummies". |
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2007-02-23, 06:07 PM | #7 | |
Don't get discouraged; it's usually the last key that opens the lock...
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http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/Dumm...88,page-1.html |
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2007-02-23, 07:25 PM | #8 | |
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2007-02-23, 07:39 PM | #9 |
Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip!
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I think the second version is way more likly to bring you surfers than the first, altho I would say you should choose somewhat rarer keyphrases than those.
There's still debate ongoing about the whole spaces and/or commas thing, but it's hard to prove it makes that much difference. There are other debates you'll also hear about the meta keywords tag, but it's a fairly weak tag. I like to use it in the way I think it was originally intended, as a place to put _additional_ keywords, mispellings, and alternative spellings. |
2007-02-23, 09:18 PM | #10 |
NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them.
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More important - and deserves it own thread probably - is whether after the comma between phrase there should be a space or not
Go read Googles webmaster guidelines - it will tell you everything you need to know - that it doesnt matter one way or the other is fine - the closer you can make it to compliant html the better it is BTW - there will be people that tell you that keywords dont matter to Google - they dont use them anyway - You have my permission (not that you need it) to yell BS as loud as you can cause they have started using them again |
2007-02-23, 09:20 PM | #11 | |
NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them.
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And BTW - your timeline is way off - it takes about 3 days to get a good listing in Google nowadays |
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2007-02-23, 09:40 PM | #12 |
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2007-02-24, 12:40 AM | #13 |
NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them.
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2007-02-24, 11:42 AM | #14 | |
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Thanks! I also got a PM with another site to look at...time to read. |
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2007-02-24, 04:58 PM | #15 | |
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http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4 Gives these two examples on the same page: <-- For speakers of US English --> <META name="keywords" lang="en-us" content="vacation, Greece, sunshine"> <-- For speakers of British English --> <META name="keywords" lang="en" content="holiday, Greece, sunshine"> <-- For speakers of French --> <META name="keywords" lang="fr" content="vacances, Grèce, soleil"> and <HEAD profile="http://www.acme.com/profiles/core"> <TITLE>How to complete Memorandum cover sheets</TITLE> <META name="author" content="John Doe"> <META name="copyright" content="© 1997 Acme Corp."> <META name="keywords" content="corporate,guidelines,cataloging"> <META name="date" content="1994-11-06T08:49:37+00:00"> </HEAD> What do you figure is the "approved" method, Linkster? It's been considered a weak tag for a long time, so I don't think people cared all that much, and I've personally seen Yahoo respond with results for rare keywords in the tag using all three possible methods - space only, comma only, and comma space. But with google's newish use of the metas, it may become more of an issue. |
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2007-02-24, 07:23 PM | #16 | |
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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Yahoo still indexes META keywords. The ranking boost, however, is marginal. META keywords are useful for targetting low hanging fruits, though ineffective when optimizing for competitive terms, because off-page factors in that case would overshadow any on-page factors, especially factors like META keywords tag or HTML comments that are invisible to surfers and are prone to spam attempts.
There's a powerful on-page factor you can use to nail a #1 position on Google for mildly competitive terms. Hint: it's not the META keyword tag. A few words from Google: Quote:
The fact Google ignores META keywords is easy to test, though if you think you have examples that prove otherwise I'd love to see it. META keywords is good for one thing. It's a great substitute for ICRA tags. Google uses words it finds in the META keywords tag to detect pages with adult images.
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2007-02-24, 07:45 PM | #17 |
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By low hanging fruits do you mean "easily accessible" (one of the meanings of that phrase) or "at the end of the branch"?
My model of how to use the keywords tag is to use it for rarer alternatives of your primary keywords, under the theory that it adds little to nothing to the ranking of the "real" keywords on the page. I kinda figured Linkster was talking about the rumors of google using the metas as part of their newer spam detection algos. |
2007-02-24, 08:27 PM | #18 | ||
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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2007-02-24, 09:39 PM | #19 |
NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them.
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I love it when people make up "facts"
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2007-02-25, 04:44 AM | #20 |
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I'm just starting to get into this stuff, but WTF did that mean? If Google doesn't ignore meta keyword tags, that means Google uses them for something, and the only thing Google does is rank web sites. So, if Google doesn't ignore them, but they don't improve ranking, what does Google do with them?
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2007-02-25, 08:18 AM | #21 | |
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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Soon EVIL came to the land and captured the Keyword and charmed it with incantations and made the Keyword do the bidding of EVIL. As a result Keyword lost all its respect and power amongst the people because none would now believe in it as Keyword was seen as the agent of EVIL. All ran far and fast away from Keyword wanting to have nothing to do with it lest they become evil too. After awhile, EVIL became bored toying and torturing Keyword and cast it aside as a used up and empty shell of its former glory. Languishing alone and hideous to look upon, all ignored Keyword as Keyword was blamed for what EVIL had really done. Sad, lonely, and abandoned by EVIL, Keyword wandered from place to place begging for its sustenence and looking for a home, no one wanted Keyword. After a time, there was some talk about EVIL and it was remembered how beautiful and helpful and nobel Keyword had been before Evil had befallen it. It was even thought by some that Keyword had been released by EVIL and had been seen wandering here and there seeking a port of comfort but never finding any. After some more time, a new air began to blow across the landscape and people began to feel badly for how they had treated Keyword and unfairly blamed it for the doings of Evil. Forgiveness was being encouraged and all now wanted to apologize and embrace Keyword and bring Keyword back into the family, perhaps even in new and interesting ways. There was now exciting talk in every corner of the land about Keyword once again and it was GOOD.
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2007-02-25, 02:24 PM | #22 | |
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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LOL DJilla that's a classic.
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2007-02-27, 08:16 AM | #23 |
NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them.
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Another quick answer here - and I really dont care what the "experts" say - I only base my points on my own testing and results
Google does use the keywords meta - not just for anti-spam detection - as part of their ranking algo - and have for the last 4 months at least - there is no question in my mind about it. |
2007-02-27, 08:22 AM | #24 |
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Thanks all, I've done some reading and will use meta keywords, without commas for a while.
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2007-02-27, 10:44 AM | #25 |
You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...me&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...bs&btnG=Search http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...ient=firefox-a I'm aching to be convinced otherwise. --- There's no harm in using the META keywords tag as long as you don't spam the hell out of it. I sometimes use it to help myself remember what I optimized a page for.
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