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META Keywords: Help, Hurt, or Irrelevant to SEO Success
Q: Can you send us a keyword worksheet filled out, so we can use as an example to fill out? Q: For quick fixes, do meta keywords help?
Answer:
Question #2, first. The META KEYWORDS tag is IGNORED by Google and Bing. Both have officially announced (many years back as it were) that they IGNORE it. So the ONLY META TAGS that matter are:
- TITLE tag: VERY important to SEO!
- META DESCRIPTION: becomes your description on Google 90% of the time if you include keywords in it.
All other meta tags: zero, zilch, nada. I use the META KEYWORDS tag as a note to myself – what am I targeting for this page? Bu tno real SEO value.Question #2 – Building a keyword worksheet.Here is a video on this –
About Jason McDonald, Ph.D
Got a question? Click this link to email Jason or call 888-993-1122. Dr. Jason McDonald is founder and Senior SEO / Social Media Director of the JM Internet Group. He teaches the SEO training classes for the group, and therefore provides most of the SEO tips for this blog. His goal with this blog is to provide an easy 'one-stop shop' for the busy marketer looking for tips, tricks, and secrets on how to get to the top of Google and Bing for free using proven SEO tactics. When not dreaming up SEO tips, Dr. McDonald lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two dogs, a cat, four iguanas and twelve children (just kidding). Really you read down to the bio on this guy? Enjoy the blog.
