Now read this....

I like it

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm

and i guess you would like it too

 

I stopped at the point where 'vaughn' mentioned keyword meta tags.

 

Well google ignores them completely...but there are a lot of crawlers that give much weight to that

 

Oh, which ones?

 

something that i read on that, have a look .... in case of google the speculation is that, meta tags are dead

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2006/apr/7.html

 

I couldn't find any mention of keywords meta tags being used by any search engines in that link. Meta description was mentioned (in my experience Yahoo! does look at it), but nothing about the keywords meta tag.

 

Well i guess it just speculation....

experimenting the concepts on my one seocontest entry started a week ago..including keyword metatags

working fine for me.... have jumped serps to top 50

like they say seo is not perfect, noone seems to win it all

 

Check out SEOmoz.org's list of on/off page factors for ranking. That is the most complete and up-to-date list right now, put together by industry experts.

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/search-ranking-factors.php

 

Thats a nice read.. thanks

 

Google doesn't ignore meta description however

 

well some say it does....(the fight would never end) but why take chances....

 

I agree, I beleive that google does use them. I maybe wrong, I am no SEO, lol .

 

Yes, the meta description is one source of the snippet that google shows under your link (though it doesn't seem to be used in Google's ranking algorithm.

 

This is page I started learning SEO.

 

Well this is the best google checklist i have see so far

 

The content may be good but I well never find out because the poor design of the page has put me off.

 

Remember the best sites out there are the worst designs

Damm good checklist, working for me right now

 

That SEOmoz article is great. That website is great .