The latest site I am trying to optimize and my second one I am trying for only a certain area. I need to know if anyone has any experiance marketing to a certain local area with certain products. Are there anyways to modify your meta tags as such so that an s-e will only allow searches for that area or help it to know better that is what you are trying to do. This line here is an example of what I mean. I really dont know what it is used for and perhaps someone could explain. <META NAME="distribution" content="Global"> . If I took the global out and put the area locally only in there in stead would that help orr should I not do that and why? Please move to proper forum if needed. Thanks.
no the meta tags dont matter, modify your content to your specific locality and you will rank for that locality
Meta tags aren't really going to help you much. What you need to do is optimize the site (SEO) for the local area you are targetting. It actually makes the SEO job for the site easier because you immediately narrow the focus and your aren't trying to compute on a global level.
So should I even use the meta with global in it? I do know for a fact that both keywords and text content do matter.
You don't even need to use that meta tag. I wouldn't worry about if I were you. Focus on optimizing your site and you'll be fine