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Example Using Keywords: School Bus
When putting in keywords in a site's code, is it best to do "school bus" or "school, bus" or "school bus, school, bus" or does it even matter?
Sorry if this is such an easy question. I've checked the source code of certain high ranking sites and I've seen it both ways for those that are very high up.
-Tim
Eg, if you list keyword, keyword, and keyword phrase you may think that the engine sees these as indexable phrases that all related to your content. In this method, I would say you could repeat a word more than once, if it is in multiple phrases.
Or, you may use the approach that the search engine will map the values to each other in various ways, such as a list of words with no commas. In this scenario, you would only write each word that was 'important' in the document once. Perhaps a list of 3-6 words?
I have tried the tags like both of the above, and they seem most representative of current 'theories' on the subject often debated here. :)
You wrote:
"I have tried the tags like both of the above, and they seem most representative of current 'theories' on the subject often debated here. :)"
So basically, there isn't a totally proper way to do this is there? Just want to make sure. I was doing the "word1 word2", but just switched to "word1, word2" to see what happens. So far this Google mess has confused the heck out of me! I changed over right smack when the dance began. (-:
-Tim
That's OK, because Google doesn't pay any attention to meta keywords, and the dance uses data from the last spidering run several weeks ago.
According to reports posted here from the recent SEM conference, the only SE that still uses this tag is Inktomi. I use phrases where appropriate, and comma-delimited words as well, limiting word repeats to no more than three.
Don't spend too much time on this question - this keywords meta tag has been so abused in the past that it is not heavily-weighted by any SEs any more.
Jim
I think he was referring to the meta keywords tag but I misread - is that what you were referring to, or something else?
The rest of his post, after that, seemed to indicate such...so, my response was about the meta keywords tag.
Actually, an article with Matt Cutts from a french publication resurfaced recently, where he confirmed that Google did use the meta keywords tag, but that it wasn't something to stress about.
I was part of a web team with responsibilities on the design side, but now that I'm on my own I'm having to quickly learn what the other side was doing! Thanks for your F A S T feedback!
tk
