Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'meta keywords'

Last week, I reported that Yahoo dropped the meta keywords tag and stopped using it completely. Remember, I told you that I wasn't convinced when I heard that and I asked the Senior Director of Search at Yahoo if he...

Posted on October 16, 2009 8:18 AM

Update: New story named Yahoo's Senior Director of Search Got It Wrong, Yahoo Uses Meta Keywords Still. It is official, no major search engines use the meta keywords tag for ranking purposes in their search algorithms. Yahoo's, matter of fact,...

Posted on October 8, 2009 8:41 AM

We all know that Google ignores the META keywords tag on pages, or at least that is what we believe and what we are told. This does not mean Google ignores other meta tags, such as the meta description, but...

Posted on March 26, 2009 5:22 AM

A WebmasterWorld member says that when he changed his meta description, his rankings plummeted on his site. In the past, US courts found META tags immaterial but Google has recommended it. Tedster points to previous WebmasterWorld coverage that shows that...

Posted on July 18, 2008 9:40 AM

At Search Engine Land, Barry writes about how a US court has decided that META keywords don't matter -- they are "immaterial." The tip came from Eric Goldman's blog where he writes about a recent case that held a company...

Posted on April 28, 2008 10:22 AM