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The most confusing is the number of keywords in the META. I use an older on-line tool, to intially design but then it tells me that I have too many keywords. The other tells me that I don't have enough.
So the question: how many is too many? I know that this can be subjective, but I feel like I'm in the middle of a battle between two tools! Should keywords be separated by a comma? I've read mixed answers on this here. If not separated by a comma, do Google and Alta string together a match by extracting individual words to create the phrase? I submitted through Inktomi last Friday and still see no action. I'm afraid that I have over done things.
So confused... As a new user here I'm not allowed to post a URL for a more targeted answer.
Thank You for this forum! Just by reading I have learned a great deal already. Something so simple as redefining an H1 through CSS has increased ranking - H1's are too big!
[edited by: Marcia at 12:05 am (utc) on June 24, 2003]
[edit reason] Specific tools not necessary. [/edit]
Nice to have you here, Bob_Ricci. You might want to check out the link development forum, if you haven't yet. I'd recommend almost everything in the library (there's a link at the top of the page) and everything written by Paynt. She was the moderator there for quiet a while and she knows a ton;)
My questions was really about the META tags in the <head> How many is too many (in characters or words.) Should they be separated by commas? Life I mentioned, I'm caugfht in a battle between two tools :)
I submitted through Ink on Friday and G still hasn't indexed any of my pages.
Google does not even look at the meta keyword tag.
Be careful here. We don't know for sure that Google ignores the META Keywords Tag. I've seen some comments over the past couple of months that indicate that Google may use the META Keywords Tag in the overall equation of page relevancy.
<title>
<description>
<keywords>
Those are the three primary meta data elements that you should focus on (the <title> is referred to as the title element).
Use the site search feature and look for "length of title", "length of description", "length of keywords", etc.
There are also some quality threads in this forums library and you may find a few more over at the Search Engine Promotion Forum that may be of benefit in your research.
When asked whether they supported meta keyword tags, all the crawlers but Inktomi said NO.
That was back in March. Since then, I've seen comments in various topics that lead me to believe that Google may look at the keywords tag. Even if they don't, it is still a good practice to utilize the tag for other SE's that may use it in determining the relevancy of a page.
It takes a minute or two to set it up, why not take advantage of it? Since Ink publicly stated they use it in their algo, that in itself is justification for me to continue promoting the proper use of the tag.
Just to add a bit of more perspective to this discussion read this thread :- Metatags are Not Dead, Long Live Metatags! [webmasterworld.com]
HTH :)
You've already answered your question, more or less. Are you talking about making a new page or changing the title on one that already exists? If it's new page and you link from a page already in the index, Google should find it. And if it's an existing page, Google will grab the new title the next time it's crawled. Either way you should be fine.
If, I, had, to, guess, seven, words
six,might,work,i,don't,know
Check out some high ranked pages on inktomi for your niche and look at the source.
[webmasterworld.com...]
Since this discussion, the meta keywords tag has been de-emphasized a lot more.
