November 29, 2005
Meta Keywords; To Comma or Not?
Want to get old school today? Search Engine Watch Forums has a new thread asking one of the oldest questions out there in SEO. The thread is named META Keyword Strategies and asks;
I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the strategy of not implementing commas between the keywords in the META tags:i.e.
{car accessories, auto parts, mufflers}
vs.
{car assecories auto parts mufflers}
Most say it doesn't make a difference but Danny Sullivan notes that the last time he spoke with Yahoo! about it, "they said to use commas."
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rustybrick in Search Engine Optimization at November 29, 2005 8:35 AM
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meta keywords with commas are treated as
Depending on the database...
individual Comma delimited terms
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/comma_delimited.html
Without the comma - they are keyphrases - it is best to use both e.g. Search,engine,optimization,search engine optimization,
Posted by Search Engines Web at November 29, 2005 23:10