eMedia Daily

Meta Keywords - Do They Matter?

Do you still use meta keyword tags on your sites and blog posts?

According to this 2007 article from Search Engine Land - most of the biggest search engines (read: google and msn live search) scan the full content of your pages to determine ranking in their results. Yahoo and Ask.com both used the keyword tag for retrevial.

So, when should you use keywords? Danny suggests that you use keywords when there is a high likelihood that searchers may misspell the search query. Spell the items correctly in your content, and then use the tags for missspellings.

Read more tips and tricks from Search Engine Land…