Hello friends I found that The META Keywords Tag is where you list keywords and keyword phrases that you've targeted for that specific page. There have been numerous discussions at various search engine marketing forums surrounding the use of the keywords tag and its effectiveness. The overall consensus is that the tag has little to no relevance with the major search engines today e.g. META Language Tag In HTML elements, the language attribute or META Language Tag specifies the natural language. META Robots Tag META Robots Tag for Googlebot META Robots Tag for MSNBot Comments and suggestion are welcome from experts.. Thanks!
I believe that you are better off leaving them blank and let the search engines crawl your content instead. I created a website and left the META Tags all the same for all pages and guess what happened? Over 90% of my pages is now in the supplemental result without any value, and all the content is 100% unique.
Th two most important tags for the major search engine Google, Yahoo and Live are 1. Description tag 2 Title tag For meta search engines the keyword tag is important I don't use the others except these three
There are two more meta tags that are very useful if you want to use it. 1:- keyphrase 2:-category in this you can use some good combination of the keywords like offshore outsourcing, offshore company, outsourcing company. and in the category you can define seo, internet, marketing etc etc keywords they all are important but you needs to use only 20 to 40 characters for these meta tags.
doesnt matter for the BIG search engines--- but i still use 'em since you never know what search-egnine crawler still looks at them.Its not that you lose something by using the tags
None of the major SEs use the Meta Keyword Tag today. But as someone who has been in SEO of 8 years, I still use it. When you seo a page, you tune it for a series of keyword phrases but in 6 months, you will not remember what they were nor will anyone else who works on the page. Therefore it is great for documenting what keyword phrase(s) were being targeted. Those that put 25, 50, 100 keywords in the Meta Keyword Tag are only harming their pages Text to Code ratio. In competitive SEO, the Meta Keyword Tag does not exist at all. And as for the "meta search engines", they will not generate real traffic or make you money. They are just a waist of time.
No need whatsoever to use a robots tag unless you want to block pages. Description tag is very important because it is used to sell your site. also, as per above, leave your meta tags the same throughout your site and the pages will probably go in the supp index!
well IMO everything that can help your site is not a waste of time to use...some still recognize them though...
some search engines do read them, but they are of least importance now a days. Specially most major popular SE do not recognize keyword meta tag any more and so the have very very less relevance now......
As others have said, these tags are essentially worthless. If you're going to use META tags, use the description and keywords tags, but don't focus more than 5-10 minutes on them. Also make sure that each description and keyword tag focuses on the description and keywords for THAT PAGE, rather than your whole site. Otherwise you're just wasting your time. There are other META tags I use, but they're not for the search engines. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> This one's a no-brainer. Declare the content type and character encoding set being used. Make sure that you save the Web page with the same encoding that you declared it as, and then make doubly sure that it matches the encoding being sent by the Web server to the browser in the HTTP header. <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"> Ever feel annoyed by the "helpful" image toolbar that Internet Explorer pops up on every image? This handy tag will get rid of it, for good. Don't forget to add a space and forward slash before the > bracket if using XHTML, of course.
The META Description is used a lot as the snippet on Google another one that's a bit obscure is <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP"> Code (markup): this tag tells Google to ignore the description in DMOZ. I Had to use it recently because the DMOZ entry for the site didn't describe the site anymore and Google displayed the DMOZ entry on the Google SERPS. We wrote to DMOZ to change, but change never happened. So we used the NOODP tag to tell Google to read the meta description on the site. After 10 days it changed. Cool.
Yeah, I'm aware of it, I just don't use it. It's too much of a "specific purpose" tag to use for something that may or may not be a problem with my work. But if I were to find one of my sites got nabbed by ODP, I'd use it. As for the other meta tags (like the nofollow and noindex ones), that's what a robos.txt file is for.
I have experimented with keyword tags and I think they are important. Even so much as to say that the position of the keyword and number of keywords all make a difference. It is a total cumulitive effort.
Not to belabor the discussion here, but as most of you have read, it seems to be common knowledge that the major search engines are not utilizing keyword meta tags. I have read this in many places and have performed a great deal of research on the issue. Ultimately many SEO companies continue to use them though. Anybody know why this would be? I did see a post by this SEO company, and they even have posted a video by Matt Cutts which specifically explains that Google does not utilize the keyword meta tag, not even a little bit. One last interesting point, most SEO software like SEO suite continue to use keyword meta tags, why?