Comments on: SEO myth busters

By: اعلانات مبوبه

اعلانات مبوبه — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:14:33 +0000

I still use the description and keyword tags, I know the major search engines ignore them (mostly) but I still feel its better to have them than not, e.g., directory listings, screen readers etc. may use them.

By: MySoog

MySoog — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:13:35 +0000

If your content is poor, your website has poor navigation and is not very user-friendly, you aren’t going to retain those visitors. I think static ‘about us’ information is good for SEO, although many do go overboard (as mentioned with the meta information) and create keyword farms and ‘link farms’.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:36:34 +0000

I totally agree that the actual content presented to customers is very important, and if it is well written the keywords should slide in there naturally. If you’re writing relevant content, it is possible to get ranked near the top of organic results, however I still think that other methods of SEO must be used to improve search engine ranking. Creating ‘original’ content is very important, as you need to attract customers and keep them coming back – unless your site relies solely on one-time hits.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:10:33 +0000

I love the BuySellAds meta keywords! I was about to make the point that Neil has made about duplicate meta descriptions but I see he has already made it so no need.

With respect to the impact of PPC advertising on SEO, I have seen several instances of sites loosing position for keyphrases when they stop PPC. It’s hard to prove that the change wasn’t caused by some other factor but it certainly makes me wonder…

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:53:48 +0000

I agree that Google isnt as good at catching black hat seo as they claim, I’ve seen plenty of sites keyword stuffing with little real valuable content and still out-ranking well written sites.

By: neil

neil — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:16:05 +0000

technically the meta keywords and description are a factor even if it is slight. these sections are used as part of your total page content and therefore effect your total keyword density.

you will also need to identify that each page ideally needs to be unique in the form of title, meta key and meta desc. if these values are duplicate across all pages you are not punished, but you will find that pages do not list as well as they are more likely to be seen as duplicates. Hence why google tools identify this as a factor influencing your results on their webmaster tools.

however, you are correct in saying if these are not present – duplication cannot be an issue (unless the whole page is a duplicate), and keyword density will only be affected by content within the body tags.