pub conference thread with info on meta tags

[ruserious]

I remember a thread from the Conference where someone started a thread with questions and answers he heard at the conference. One of the items was about the use of meta-tags (keyword that is; not description). And the answer was that only a single one of the SEs used it.

Anyway after searching for almost an hour I can't find it, has somebody bookmarked it and can help me? :)

Thank you very much. Your help is very much appreciated.

Edit:
I mean this conference: [webmasterworld.com...]

Can't find the other thread.

[creative craig]

There were a few threads:

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

I cant find the one that says about the meta-tags though.

I know who posted it, Brett did, he said that the panel was asked "who reads the meta-keyword tag?" all except Inktomi said they dont read or give it any weight :)

Craig

[SEO practioner]

Hello ruserious

To the best of my knowldge, the only SE that still gives some importance to the keyword meta tag is Inktomi.

But I'm not 100% sure... It is something I read somewhere.

:-) SEO

[creative craig]

Didnt I just say that ;)

[Camster]

I think this might be the one you're looking for:

[webmasterworld.com ]

[creative craig]

Thats the one:

When asked whether they supported meta keyword tags, all the crawlers but Inktomi said NO.

Brett posted that :)

[ruserious]

Thank you very much, very kind!

:)

[mfishy]

I would have loved to see the sheepish expresion on the Ink Rep's face when he admitted that they still use the keyword meta tag :)

[carfac]

So, would you call the keywords tag deprectiated?

Should one just dump it from one's sites?

dave

[pageoneresults]

So, would you call the keywords tag deprecated?

Not until the W3C officially declares it as deprecated. I don't always believe everything I hear. Even if the current major SE's do not read the keywords meta tag, what about future SE's that may? And what about Ink?

It takes less than a minute to properly configure the keyword meta tag. If you don't want to spend too much time on it, just be sure to include your main keyword phrase for that page and possibly one or two others.

Things change over time. Take the meta description tag for example. It was claimed that Google was not reading information in this tag a while back. Now we've got plenty of sightings where Google is reading and displaying the meta description tag. I wonder how many people went back and added the tag after not having it to begin with.

Using your metadata correctly is part of proper web design. If you want to eliminate your keywords tag, you can. But, I think you may be shooting yourself in the foot in the long run! ;)

[SEO practioner]

I tend to agree with you Pageon