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Posted by dorayme on 06/07/07 01:58
In article <Xns9947BE6FA7BD6arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writing in news:doraymeRidThis-
> EB5A1A.09164007062007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
>
> > In article <m2fy54u3dk.fsf@local.wv-www.com>,
> > Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@dot-app.org> wrote:
> >
> >> PSiegmann@mail.nu writes:
> >>
> >> > Does it still make sense to add meta tags to your site?
> >>
> >> It never did. What's the point of trying to "trick" search engines
> into
> >> indexing words that aren't actually on your site?
> >
> > The point was to try to bring more traffic. The method's success
> > or morality is a different matter.
> >
> > But the motivation, even so, was not always bad. Let us suppose
> > meta tag have some real effect on search engines for one moment:
> > one might not use some words in the page itself, but want to draw
> > people who are searching for very closely related things to the
> > site in case they are searching under synonyms of the words
> > actually used. There could be all sorts of honourable enough
> > reasons.
> >
>
> I suggested use is misspellings of common words. For a long time, I
> could not spell affidavit correctly (heck who's kidding who, I still have
> to look it up), so one could put common misspellings for keywords.
>
> The description meta is still used by some search engines, so don't throw
> the baby out with bath water.
Yes, common misspellings would have been a good reason.
Only last week, a client was puzzled by how its site came high up
in Google when a word in the plural was used, but not in the
singular. In fact, it might have been partly because the word was
only in the plural form in my main text. I contrived to use as
natural an expression as possible to add a sentence with the
singular which yet would make sense and be useful text to a user.
I had had it in the singular and plural forms for years in the
meta tags to no avail!
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dorayme
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