Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:06:31 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: off topic in chat? Search Engines question Message-ID: <20001206180631.A15059@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3A2EE94F.AF592D18@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:35:11PM -0800 References: <3A2EE94F.AF592D18@wiegand.org>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:35:11PM -0800, chip wrote: > I have been asked to put some new meta keywords on a web > site I made, and the client wants to use almost 30. I have > tried to explain to them that is probably too many. > I have emailed several search engine admins asking them > what they consider an appropriate amount, or max number of > keywords in the meta tags. > What are the opinions of the people on this list of this topic? Meta tags may well be dead. Google doesn't use them because they are basicaly useless (99.999% of sites with META keywords just make them up to get hits.) I suspect other search engines will be moving in the same direction since everyone is moving towards a model more like google's then like early search engines. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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