Does Google weigh keywords against content?

[Amicro]

Hi all,

This morning as I drove into work thinking about how best to feed the google spider I began to think about something that intrigued me.

Does Google weigh or measure the keywords found in the meta section of a page against the content that it finds on that page, and does this affect how the page is ranked?

[Receptional]

Not really the forum to ask in - Try one of the Google forums - they'll eat up that sort of question like gannets (spelling)

[Amicro]

will do, and thanks for the pointer.

[digitalv]

My understanding of Google is they ignore the keywords in the meta tags completely, and just use the content of your page, title, and page name.

[delboy1978uk]

Google have changed their algorythm recently and now use BOTH
the keywords must show on your content, which google will use as well to gain the overall relevance