Are keywords still relavent

TexSurance.US · Post by **TexSurance.US** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:35 am

Are keywords still relavent

I mean I'm talking meta tag keywords,

not the keywords of the body of a page,

haven't engines evolved beyond looking at meta tag keywords

coop99 · Post by **coop99** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:37 pm

TexSurance.US wrote:Are keywords still relevant

Google, Yahoo and MSN all claim they do not use Meta Keywords to judge relevance or for indexing purposes. There are still a few search engines that use the Keywords tag, however you are right when you say they have "evolved" and are now looking for other things besides the Meta Keywords Tag.

Links have gotten to be a really big deal, as well as linkbait and other creative tactics to increase link popularity.

Social bookmarking has grown a lot and is making a huge come back.

Still the best weapon to use would have to be quality relevant content optimized on and off the pages.

inveigle · Post by **inveigle** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:57 am

meta tags are still used on some advertisment based engines, but really the only consistant pratice is good content

Eavesy · Post by **Eavesy** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:29 pm

2 right they are still relevant!

netprophet · Post by **netprophet** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:15 am

wmseo · Post by **wmseo** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:01 am

I don't think so, if the meta keywords are still relevant.

wmseo · Post by **wmseo** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:49 am

Meta Keywords are relevant to website, it will identify the positioning of keywords.

smilemaker · Post by **smilemaker** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:15 am

meta tags do have importance! its might be not for some search engines but yes for google ,yahoo,msn......

index-it · Post by **index-it** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:45 am

you should always make your pages friendly for all search engines, even though some do not care about keywords there are some that still do so placeing them in your site is not going to hurt you any it can only help, I would use only about 3 for 4 keyword phrases that should be enough and it does'nt look like you are spamming.

princess · Post by **princess** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:43 am

i believe they are still relevant, however there are more important things to consider like content and links.

Axial · Post by **Axial** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:44 am

i am not sure whether to add keywords to my inner pages or not will it make any difference if i don't.

hadiyarobins · Post by **hadiyarobins** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:51 am

keyword meta tag are in use but more weightage to keywords used in title tag.

stevewaganer · Post by **stevewaganer** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:14 pm

Yes ,keywords still have relevance. More emphasis should be given to keywords in title tags. No doubt more sources of promotion are there these days.. but still keywords have not lost relevance.

herbalcures · Post by **herbalcures** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:15 pm

I think Main search engines like Yahoo, Google, Msn are not interesting to meta keywords.

anxietyguide · Post by **anxietyguide** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:49 pm

I think Main search engines like Yahoo, Google, Msn are not interesting to meta keywords.

I agree with this.

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