It’s unusual I post stuff about other SEO bloggers, but I should do it more. Two notable things have caught my eye with a new blog I found from StoneTemple Consulting.
Firstly, Google revealed that between 20-25% of all searches per day are new to Google. That means they’ve never seen 1/4 of the terms people use. That means the keyword research you do is only poling 75% (if that) of users; you only use maybe 1% of that 75% to choose your 20 keywords (for a tiny site.) Interesting.
Secondly, Eric Enge seems to feel that (in the link above) meta keywords are still being taken into consideration by the spiders (Google I’m assuming). I could be wrong here and don’t mind being corrected, but it was interesting to read since the consensus recently is the tag has no barring whatsoever.
That about wraps up my Friday offering, Monday we have another SEO interview slated for release, a mystery guest who rules the likes of SEOchat. Stay tuned for that!
[tags]erci enge, stonetemple consulting, meta keywords, nofollow[/tags]
For purposes of clarification, I think that the meta keywords are ignored by Google in general, but if you have 50 meta keywords in your meta keywords list, that it can be a negative signal (because it’s keyword stuffing).
Other than that, I concur with the rest of the community that meta keywords are ignored.
Thanks for stopping by and clarifying Eric. I would agree, however, would only suggest that keyword stuffing in the meta keyword tag would only get noticed if human eyes saw it, and even then, it’d have to be pretty ridiculous.