If I am competing for a "headless chicken" keyword for example. in my keywords mata tags,should I include headless chicken,chicken,headless OR just headless chicken? I am not competing those words as separate words. Should I still include them or not? I don't want to,if I don't have to...
If you are not competing for those words individually, then no, you dont need to include them. The search engines' algo is good enough that it can distinguish between a multiple keyword phrase and a single word, plus putting too many words in your tags "dillute" the "value" of what *is* in there, so no more than 10-15 words at most. BTW- "keyword" meta tags are pretty irrelevant... only ome 3rd tier SE's use them, Google et al do not. Title and description tags in that order are counted most.
No need to do that. If you use "headless chicken" search engine will rank this for both phrase and individual word headless and chicken.
pages are being scanned by bots from top to bottom. meta tags are read first then the body content. hope this gives you an idea.
if you want to get higher for headless chiken go for stuff like headless meat and or beheaded chicken. The search egniens are getting smarter and a TOP way of geting ranked in with the search egnines well is by using words that are similar. The SEs have some speccy word for this i dont remember it but say u wanna rank for pasta.... you try spaghetti, bolognaise, linguini etc. Use stuff like this in ur metas and ur conetent and it will help you get ur rankings up.
yeh its al over internet. There is a name for it... if i can ill try find it. It is in a lot of upper end SEO books. um.... I can remember a few but not their names anyone here good at SEO should no about this. It has popped up over the 6-12 months. Fair new idea so many ppl dont use it yet thats why u can rank so high with it.