Meta Tag Keywords Question

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject: Meta Tag Keywords Question

Hi,

I am a little worried about spamming the search engines with my meta tag keywords, so below you will see I am using cars as a demonstration of some keywords that will be used in the keyword meta tag string and I would like to know if this would be classed as spamming the search engines as the word cars is said a lot ?

cars, bmw cars, alfa romeo cars, audi cars, ford cars, mercedes cars, saab cars, toyota cars, volkswagen cars, peugeot cars, renault cars, porsche cars

I know some people say some search engines read them, but I would like them there for the ones that do read them.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

It's quite hard to answer this question as really no one knows what the big search engines would deem as meta tag spam if they even look for this at all.

Andrew

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject:

I found this information useful when looking into that kind of thing:

http://selfpromotion.com/search-engine-optimization.t

He recommends not repeating an individual word more than five times. I don't think the site has been updated for a few years though.

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Meta Tag Keywords Question

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

I believe Google look for words in the main text of your page and ignore any meta-tags. If your company name or important information is repeated several times, it tends to get noticed more. However, some people have used white text with a tiny font to add more keywords without the user spotting. This tends to get you dropped from Google in a hurry ( I think BMW got found doing something similar). A good bit of content writing should help.

Ian

NetHosted Customer Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 35

Google ignores the Keywords Meta and has done since 2000. I managed top 10 placing 90% of the time and top 30 99% without anything in the keywords metatag on Google.

The title is very important and description holds a lot of weight.

Don't think KeyWord think KeyString, eg second hand car basingstoke uk

This means you have to second guess how people will search for your product and ensure these words appear both in the title, description and body (several times) close together, preferably sequential.

In order to get on the search engines fast & monitor the results post the URL on a well used forum like, erm, this one! This will get picked up quickly by MSN, usually a week, so you can see the result you're likely to get from Google, which will be between 1 week and the end of the Universe (or later).

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:11 am Post subject:

It's my understanding that Google doesn't even rely on the content text that much (if at all?) for actual rankings, and is more concerned about the pages linking to you.

Mike

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