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" - SEO Jill Whalen of HighRankings.com said recently in LED discussion list. Implementing meta tags - more specifically the keyword meta tag - is not going to have any affect on your rankings. . . A quote ", first.

Uh-uh. But keyword meta tags, a little? . . Sometimes matter , description tags may, title tags still matter - critically. Can keyword meta tags possibly still matter? Two list members then (who claim to be SEO's) quoted Jill Whalen's above comment suggesting they believe that keyword meta tags still have an effect on ranking.

It's old news that keyword tags are worthless. It's long past time to stop wasting energy on that tag and I hope those two SEO's who both claimed they found meta tags useful will spend their energies elsewhere in the future.

I wrote an article in 1999 or 2000 titled "Keyword Meta Tags Search Phrase Tutorial" listing the top 8 ingredients to ranking well in the search engines.

I am 100% with Jill Whalen on the futility of mucking around with keyword meta tags, as you might guess from the title, including a "Search engine simulator tool" and an "HTML source code viewer" and a also linked to a previous article I'd written in 2002 called "SEO Keyword Voodoo: Invisible Meta Tag Mumbo Jumbo" because, -) and linked to some online tools from that page, added a small type disclaimer ; so I massaged and edited a few things. I went back today to review it and found that remarkably few things have changed.

They're an old and badly abused element of HTML code that no longer does a thing for ranking. Don't waste your time fussing with them or tweaking them. They are completely misunderstood by webmasters still, if they are not purposely abused. Nor are they trusted at all by any search engines, they are not used. Keyword Meta tags went south in about 1998-99 or so when webmasters began keyword stuffing and the search engines stopped paying attention to them.

" Which allows you to search only the top 25 SEO bloggers and the Official Search Engine Blogs for the search phrase "keyword meta tags, available from a link in my resource box below, i've created a Rollyo search tool, to further prove my point.

I discovered that most of those results are either derisive comments about "keyword meta tags" from the SEO blogger or are derisive comments left by visitors about the folly of meta tag massaging, after visiting each of the nine search results from that searchroll! Let alone being used in SEO, keyword meta tags are no longer being discussed by anyone. Nine. Only 9 results came back on that search, at the time of this writing.

my favorite blog post from among the results of that SearchRoll are from Aaron Wall of SEObook when he said,

Hehehe" . . . Meta tags? . . Oh well , but if it makes them happy, a total waste of time. An old client wants me to rewrite their meta tags. . . ".

" "hehehe! Ding! . . SEO bloggers say . Convinced yet that keyword meta tags are pointless?

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