Webmaster 101: Keyword Metatags don't mean a thing

Filed under: Business, Developer, Blogging, Google

No matter whether you're a web-developer, blogger or website owner, you've no doubt heard of metatags. These small snippets of information are great for hinting at the page's content - however since their inception, these tags have been open to abuse in attempts to game search engine results, none more-so than the "Keyword" metatag.

In recent years, Google has long-ignored the keyword metatags - and a post today from Google's Matt Cutts confirms that the search engine's results remain unaffected by any keyword metatags you may place in a page (and it's important to remember that Google continues to support other metatags as part of their Page Rank algorithm). One other metatag - the description metatag - is also ignored in determining results, but normally the description tag's data is used as a snippet to describe each hit on a results page.

Webmaster 101: Keyword Metatags don't mean a thing originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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