Comments on: Google Does Not Use Meta Keywords in Site Ranking

By: satish

satish — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:40:55 +0000

Its a good news that google may consider description for SERPs. Now websites should not use descrpition in a wrong way in order to increase thier rankings.

By: Adsurf

Adsurf — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:26:47 +0000

If we restrict the conversation to META keywords then Google does not use them.

Yahoo will only use them if there are no other ranking signals that are stronger like page titles, headers, text, everything content related. Only then does Yahoo now use the META keyword info. They stated clearly recently that repeating keywords in the META keywords will NOT help rankings.

Bing appears to work in a similar fashion or at least places very little weight on META keywords.

Keyword use in the titles and other page content outside of META remains as important as before.

By: Buddy Scalera

Buddy Scalera — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:15:37 +0000

It may not help, but it’s good to keep it in there, since rules on SEO are constantly changing. Plus, as many people have noted, there are other search engines out there, so it’s good to supply those engines with relevant information about the content of your webpage.

By: Preecha

Preecha — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:32:22 +0000

Thanks, for useful info. It can guide me the SEO on my blog.

By: Marketing 101

Marketing 101 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:21:23 +0000

As far as meta keywords go I think they still have a value if they are put harmoniously with meta desriptions. Just by using keywords do not mean much in Serps. It is the sinergic value that counts. If all are used correctly (according to google standards) they can significantly help you get ahead.

By: immanuelruby

immanuelruby — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:16:44 +0000

We can still optimize the website by adding meta keywords since Yahoo, Bing and other search engines may follow these meta keywords. If you want to optimize your website only for Google then follow their webmaster guidelines and optimize them accrdingly.

By: @alwaysmikegomez

@alwaysmikegomez — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:46:48 +0000

It has been known Google disregard meta keywords for a while now so nothing new there. Although Google do not use the keywords meta, it is still worth using them as best practise to optimise for other search engines that still use this data in their algorithms.

Mike

By: Jeff Marmins

Jeff Marmins — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:46:04 +0000

Glass Pendants – I agree that the traffic from Yahoo, MSN and Bing have traffic that merits Meta keywords that are considered intelligently. TIP: list without commas, don’t be repetitive and put your most important words first.

Most traffic comes from Google though. and, most Google traffic comes from organic listings on the page (not PPC ads).

I like that Google doesn’t us the Meta Keywords- doesn’t that mean more weight on relevance in their algorithm?

By: Glass Pendants

Glass Pendants — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:58:04 +0000

I guess I was surprised to hear that Google does not look at keywords, but what about Yahoo and Bing? According to recent SEJ article, 29% of users are using these search engines.

Seems like Google’s algorithm would be smart enough to detect keyword stuffing and penalize sites that do so. It is not hard to look at meta keywords and determine overuse of certain keywords and then to look for correlation between list and actual words used in page.

By: SeoNext

SeoNext — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:23:12 +0000

Titles and meta tags helps a lot for getting ranking to your website easily. with out titles keywords your page not indexed in high competition keywords, If you are given quality keywords then your website indexed easily.