Comments on: Why the Keyword Meta Tag Doesn’t Matter… And I Can Prove It! http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/ Life In the Internet Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:35:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: marckdon http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-346 marckdon Sun, 30 May 2010 10:54:30 +0000 http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/#comment-346 hello everyone, thanks everybody.cause everybody send great information hello everyone, thanks everybody.cause everybody send great information

]]> By: jtrigsby http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-180 jtrigsby Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:41:52 +0000 http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/#comment-180 Well... nothing on purpose... but I just looked and saw at least one search keyword for race horse... I guess there's no accounting for what some people will look for!<br><br>Now if you Google jtrigsby race horse... Number One Baby! ;) Well… nothing on purpose… but I just looked and saw at least one search keyword for race horse… I guess there's no accounting for what some people will look for!

Now if you Google jtrigsby race horse… Number One Baby! ;)

]]> By: jtrigsby http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-179 jtrigsby Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:36:04 +0000 http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/#comment-179 Hey Harold, thanks for stoppin by.<br><br>As far as I know, the labels in Blogger work like tags in WordPress and thats it. No real advantage to them beyond the extra search and nav enhancements they provide.<br><br>One easy way to find out is to pick some really obscure word and add it as a label to a post. After a couple of days, check Google with a query like <br><br>site:{mysitename.com} {really obscure word}<br><br>for example<br><br><a href="http://site:jtrigsby.com" rel="nofollow">site:jtrigsby.com</a> race horses<br><br>this will show you if that word is being indexed as content by Google. If it is being indexed, then it could count for something... but I'm not sure its worth the effort you're putting in to it. (Sorry) Hey Harold, thanks for stoppin by.

As far as I know, the labels in Blogger work like tags in WordPress and thats it. No real advantage to them beyond the extra search and nav enhancements they provide.

One easy way to find out is to pick some really obscure word and add it as a label to a post. After a couple of days, check Google with a query like

site:{mysitename.com} {really obscure word}

for example

site:jtrigsby.com race horses

this will show you if that word is being indexed as content by Google. If it is being indexed, then it could count for something… but I'm not sure its worth the effort you're putting in to it. (Sorry)

]]> By: Harold http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Harold Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:56:24 +0000 http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/#comment-178 Oh and by the way, what does this post have to do with racehorses? XD Oh and by the way, what does this post have to do with racehorses? XD

]]> By: Harold http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Harold Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:51:38 +0000 http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009/09/why-the-keyword-meta-tag-doesnt-matter-and-i-can-prove-it/#comment-177 Really really helpful post, Rigsby. I have a concern, and perhaps you know the answer: I've been spending a ridiculous amount of time going back to old Blogger posts and entering Labels (Blogger's version of tags), since they introduced the feature about a year or two ago and all of my pre-2007 posts didn't have these labels. My thinking has been, Google owns Blogger, and since Blogger has introduced this Labels feature perhaps Google utilizes the labels in their search engine. In fact, I could swear that I read something somewhere stating exactly that. Do you happen to know? (I know that meta tags are quite different from the tags features of blog systems, but I'm still wondering.) Really really helpful post, Rigsby. I have a concern, and perhaps you know the answer: I've been spending a ridiculous amount of time going back to old Blogger posts and entering Labels (Blogger's version of tags), since they introduced the feature about a year or two ago and all of my pre-2007 posts didn't have these labels. My thinking has been, Google owns Blogger, and since Blogger has introduced this Labels feature perhaps Google utilizes the labels in their search engine. In fact, I could swear that I read something somewhere stating exactly that. Do you happen to know? (I know that meta tags are quite different from the tags features of blog systems, but I'm still wondering.)

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