Confimed: Yahoo uses the keywords tag

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 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!

 

Good finding, and yahoo sure uses keyword tags

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

Ok, to answer my own question, I see that Dark Sun Online 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.

 

whow...interesting !

 

Don't agree much to that .

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

 

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

 

Yeah you are right on that fact .

 

Good knowleage
good share
thank you

 

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

 

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

 

nice found mate. surely it will helpful.