Comments on: Who Said META Tag Optimization Was Dead?

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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:27:06 +0000

[...] provide a few resources to help with your META data. I wrote previously about the benefits of META Tag Optimization – you can find out how a well crafted page description, which the Search Engines use for your [...]

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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:14:29 +0000

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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:55:36 +0000

[...] The page descriptions also need some TLC. I wrote previously about the optimisation of META Descriptions – it’s quite relevant for John’s site. I would make sure that you give good descriptions of the images in the META Description and include your main keywords again. And make the descriptions unique for very page. This may help get some of the pages out of supplemental. [...]

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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:27:24 +0000

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By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:19:39 +0000

Ken

I wouldn’t worry unless the sites in question are thin-content sites, i.e. they have little indexable content, or a high proportion of the text on each page is identical. In those circumstances having unique META descriptions and keywords *might* save some pages from hitting a duplicate content filter.

And remember, the above is relevant for Google. The other majors still do check the METAs (but how much weight is given is frnakly unknown).

Rgds
Richard

By: Mojo

Mojo — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:10:43 +0000

The duplicate content filter for META keywords is interesting. Well for me it’s really more worrying than interesting as a lot of my sites have the same keywords througout the whole site. I know they don’t have any bearing on SEO and that’s why I just duplicate them using an include; generally I only use META keywords functionally when building intranets, libraries, etc. Perhaps I should just leave them out completely on commercial sites?

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:56:28 +0000

1. META keywords have little or no effect for Google. The others may well give some weighting to keywords tag.

The primary usefulness of keyword tag in Google is to avoid the possibility of dupe filter hitting your page. This is most especially the case the thin content sites that have a high proportion of boilerplate elements to unique content.

2. Not a beach man. Love the heat, but not the sun.

But if I neglect the blog for too long it will take a while for GoogleBot to come back again. A little new content here and there should keep it happier.

Rgds
Richard

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:10:40 +0000

Some good food for thought there, Richard. I generally add my META, DC, etc. tags in a generic include file seeing as how they’re not relevant for SEO. But I may very well start adding unique relevant description for each important document now! Two questions if I may:

1) What about the relevance of unique meta keywords, if any?
2) Why the hell aren’t you on a beach somewhere?

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:56:31 +0000

Actually, it was more to bad mouth said awards. I believe that I have been quite positive about the business plan of Moviestar. I know nothing about their execution, so cannot comment on their service.

You never know, but I for one am not holding my breath

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:20:24 +0000

You couldn’t have put it better.

Meta Description Tags are VERY powerful for a call of action to enter your site and should be utilized so. In your case, it was to bad mouth … said moviestar.ie

You never know. Maybe next years, ehm, said awards, will be riddled with decent sites afraid of the backlash from SEOs