I need help for setup the keyword meta tag for my blogspot blog: http://webdesigntome.blogspot.com - how many keywords to put on it? - what is the benefit for this meta tag? Thanks all.
The keyword meta tag is pretty much useless. I wouldn't bother with it. However, if you want to do it, you go to Edit HTML under Design/Layout or whatever it's called now. Then, in the head, add <meta name="keywords" content="blah, blah, blah, word, this, that, the other" /> Done. Just put words you feel are your main search terms. Don't overdo it. If you want it to be a per-post tag, then it gets trickier. You'll want to use an expr:content= so you can throw in Blogger variables. You don't have a lot of control, though. You could also add a bunch of b:if statements so you can manually assign a new meta tag for each post. I would avoid it altogether, though. There are far better ways to spend your time.
The BEST thing you can do with meta keywords tag is to remove it from your site. There is no good that you can derive from the tag. You can only harm your site if the field becomes too spammy, you are giving away your keywords to competitors too.
For the last six months my website has been working it's way to the first page of Google, it's very competitive and has over 10 million exact searches per month. When it hit first page, like a numpty I thought that I would update it with new and fresh content for the thousands of new people coming to my site, I made 5 new posts and decided to add meta tags and a meta description. I only added one line of text for the description and only 5 keywords for the meta keywords. I also added some extra categories. A few days later my traffic dropped suddenly to zero. I couldn't belive it! at first I thought Google had slapped me for stuffing keywords in the tags. I couldn't understand why it had disappeared for my keyword??? I ran some tests and I found my site on the 5th page for one of my keywords. The funny thing was it was showing as the rootdomain.com instead the usual naked domain www. I thought that maybe Google had been making PR updates and zeroed all the main links pointing to my site but they where all there and most still working fine. Odly my ranking had also dropped in yahoo? I decided to delete all the meta tags and descriptions, I went to the google cache and put the site back exactly as I was before it dropped with the exception of the new posts. I also went to google webmaster tools and added a sitemap which, I have not done before and also pinged the site for google to come back and crawl it. Today it re appeared!! WTF?? It is first page for some worldwide sites but is now second page for google.com. The weird thing is, it is still showing as http://example.com instead for http://www.example.com I don't know what to do about this?? should I just leave it?? or should I go into webmaster tools and select www. as a preference?? Please can someone answer this?? Shall I tell google to re-index it again as www. where all my links are pointing? all other pages display as www. is that weird? I don't want to do anything else to mess this up. WARNING!! if you have a site that you have working hard on and ranks well then I would definately think first of the effects before making any major changes to your site meta description or keyword tags. I will probably never use them again now and just let Google decide what it wants to display. any thoughts on this??? Sorry for the hijack! Thanx
I guess Googling Meta tags will get you better tips. Just because its a very basic topic, it will help you more to expertize yourself with it. And then ask advanced questions here.
For title, use no more than 10 words for Blogger - works great with 10 words that makes sense overall.
I've been reading alot of meta tag recently due to the issue above, I thought that it wouldn't be a big deal but it is. Google do crawl and record keyword tags but there is some disagreement at the moment whether or not they actually use them. They do store them in their index. Search engine land often runs test to see whether the major engines still use tags, and they belive they do. Google won't really disclose anything about what they do. I think my issue is with Yahoo and not Google. I think that google uses the Yahoo index more than anyone would like to think, when I checked the site links I found that they were getting confused with the prefix on my site, whether or not the meta tags caused this I don't know?? At this moment in time it looks as if it did, and Google followed suit. Many people use meta keywords purely for mispellings...
After reading all the advices here I think I'll avoid this meta keyword as they might look too spammy for search engine bot. Thanks everyone for the replies! ;-)