Comments on: Keywords

by: Kev Price

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:30:58 +0000

Cheers Jo,

I think my comments system stripped out the anchor tags in your post so a little of the comedy was lost unfortunately

by: Jo York

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:18:00 +0000

Well said that man. Or should I say …

…your article about SEO was very informative, Kev Price. Tell me more about SEO tips and SEO tips best practice

by: Kev Price

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:01:21 +0000

I’m not a big advocate of metatags for SEO.
Search engines try to get an unbiased opinion of your website. So what other people say about you is very important.

Meta tags are self written, therefore biased and so discounted by the majority of search engines.

Yahoo do still use the description tag in the SERPs as a snippet under your title tag when displaying results.
So, well written description tags can occasionally increase click through rates based on quality of copy. (there is also an option of turning this off within yahoo)

If you are using metatags then make sure you can guarantee they are unique for every page, and don’t keyword stuff them, keep them relevant.

by: Milly Shaw

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:09:40 +0000

Very interesting!
Are you saying that sticking a handful of keywords in the meta tags is not that useful then?

And that’s a very good point about having a domain name that includes keywords because that’s the text that people tend to use in the link…