Confimed: Yahoo uses the keywords tag

[trump]

I've seen a few posts on this forum saying not to bother with the keywords meta tag. I put up a site a few years ago Dark Sun Online (http://darksunonline.org) and packed the keywords tag with things like "free online game" which dont appear anywhere else in the page.

The page has just been sitting there for the last 2 or 3 years doing nothing. I recently started checking the stats. Fully 75% of the traffic comes from Yahoo searches and most of that from keywords that only appear in the keywords tag, nowhere on the page.

I hope this helps!

[Blogspotter]

Good finding, and yahoo sure uses keyword tags :)

[rcj662]

You should put them in a site no matter what. It does not hurt site and takes a minute to do.

[trump]

You should put them in a site no matter what. It does not hurt site and takes a minute to do.

Well that's always been my thought :)

[matt608@]

It's so simple to add the meta keywords tag, it might as well be done.

[Digitalguy]

getting listed on top in google is harder than getting listed in yahoo and msn.

[Jordan Matthews]

Great find! I've always wondered why I've done so much better with Yahoo than anyone else, and that's probably why.

[Divisive Cottonwood]

I wonder if this is also the case with MSN.

I have one site that is number one for a keyword but I can only find the keyword on the index page in the keywords meta

[Wyla]

Thats not entirely true. I have a 2 sites. 1 related to "counter strike" and one to "warcraft". I linked the "counter strike" site from the "warcraft" and now I sometimes receive traffic on the "counter strike" site for "warcraft" keywords.

Basically, anchor text and inbound links play a huge part in SEO even if you don't have the keywords anywhere on the actual site.

[Pahrump Mike]

Any idea if it works with misspellings? And how many is too many? I know we're just guessing.

[neelesh]

If you can get listed in yahoo and msn, you are creating more opportunity to get listed in google.

[Pahrump Mike]

Ok, to answer my own question, I see that Dark Sun Online (http://darksunonline.org/) has "free fames" in it's keyword tag and ranks #2 on Yahoo for the phrase. Very interesting. I wonder if there's any chance Google will punish a page for having too many keywords in the keyword tag, or if it dilutes the effect of the keyword tag with google.

[GeorgR.]

I've seen a few posts on this forum saying not to bother with the keywords meta tag. I put up a site a few years ago Dark Sun Online (http://darksunonline.org) and packed the keywords tag with things like "free online game" which dont appear anywhere else in the page.

The page has just been sitting there for the last 2 or 3 years doing nothing. I recently started checking the stats. Fully 75% of the traffic comes from Yahoo searches and most of that from keywords that only appear in the keywords tag, nowhere on the page.

I hope this helps!

whow...interesting !

[technolarity]

Don't agree much to that .

There are high chances that the keyword is on the site that backlinks you .

[vicdigi]

too many people always say not to bother with keywords however it does not hurt to have them in you code

[technolarity]

Yeah you are right on that fact .

[Adulu]

Good knowleage
good share
thank you

[Nipon]

I am not sure what the keywords actually do, but still keep them - no harm to do that, right? :D

[thevirus]

I never really thought any major search engines used keywords meta tags anymore. But hey im always wrong :)

[charlie4u]

nice found mate. surely it will helpful.:)

[Directory_SEO]

Google pretty much ignores the keywords tag, it makes sense that Yahoo, MSN and some other small search engines are using it.

[advantage]

Hold on a second - are there links pointed at your site externally or internally that use those keywords?

[rolypoly]

too many people always say not to bother with keywords however it does not hurt to have them in you code

ya. you don't lose anything.

[UrBabYgiRLfOrLiFe]

i agree..why worry so much in putting meta tags., the fact that in does not affect bad in our site still a healthy decision. Now that Yahoo uses tags as well.

[abstroose]

Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing :)

[godmode]

Well in just tried checking yahoo with those keywords and i dont find that site anywhere on the 1st page.

whats happening?

[tradeya]

thanks for sharing info. normmaly it should be put keywords tag in all site as prictical. anyway good info for those who think meta tags is not important.

[jakomo]

Hello,

Always I am adding keyword tag, keyword descrition tags :)

Best regards

[zinko]

hm... interesting. For some time now i wasn't bothering with keyword tags

[templates]

ive always used them just in case

[Peachy]

That's an interesting find!

[trump]

Hold on a second - are there links pointed at your site externally or internally that use those keywords?

Nope. Not that I know of.

[downloadthenet]

That's interesting. No wonder I never get in Yahoo...oops. :o

[trump]

That's interesting. No wonder I never get in Yahoo...oops. :o

haha :)

Glad I could help at least one of you!