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From: Bill Mason
Date: Aug 7, 2003 12:11AM

At 10:01 PM 8/6/2003, Brian Gillies wrote:
>the problem I have is the keywords
>I have been told that search engine spiders will think I'm trying to spam
>the internet with the amount of keywords I have on the different pages of
>my website

Just about all major search engines have abandoned even looking at keywords
in a meta tag at all, because of past abuses of the tag. So they're no
longer worried about if you're spamming the tag; they are just ignoring
it. Inktomi is still the only major exception, and even they admittedly do
not give it a lot of weight in deciding where to rank a web site.

>when my website started up I was getting around 40 hits a day
>now I'm lucky if I get 10
>
>is this because of the keywords or the because of the sheer amount of
>information I have on my site?

Whatever it is, it's not the keywords.

See http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2165061 for a
reference on the abandoning of meta keyword tags. I wouldn't even both
putting them on a site anymore unless the site has its own internal search
engine that uses them.

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
<EMAIL REMOVED>
http://www.accessibleinter.net/



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