Re: Keywords in meta tag

Depends on the engine.  With some (Infoseek, MetaCrawler, HotBot) it may or
may not benefit.  With others, you could be penalized or ignored for doing
it.

/Garry

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Bushman <bushman(at)goodnet.com>
To: Bert Doorn <bert(at)betterwebdesign.com.au>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: Keywords in meta tag


> I went to: http://northernwebs.com/set/ hoping to get some
> good info. Before reading too much I decided to see what
> these people had in their meta tags. I found:
>
> <meta name="keywords" content="Website Promotion Website
> Promotion Website Promotion Position Position Advice Advice
> Advice Meta Tags Meta Tags Meta Tags HTML HTML HTML excite
> alta vista lycos infoseek crawler HotBot">
>
> It seems to be a contradiction to what I've been told with
> regards to being repetitious. Is the above good or bad practice?
>
> Bert Doorn wrote:
> >
> > Last but not least, I recommend you have a look at this Search Engine
> > Tutorial I have come across in my travels:  http://northernwebs.com/set/
as
> > it covers the above and much more.
> --
> Rob Bushman
> Educator/Web Developer
> mailto:bushman(at)goodnet.com
>
> "No other success can compensate for failure in the home"
>                      -David O. McKay
>

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