Posted by Oli Filth on 07/02/05 04:20

Onideus Mad Hatter said the following on 02/07/2005 01:43:
> On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:28:14 GMT, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
> <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>In alt.html, Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
>>
>>>Coincidentally, as far as search engines are concerned there are
>>>only two tags which I consider relevant:
>>>
>>><meta name="description" content=""/>
>>><meta name="keywords" content=""/>
>>>
>>>If those two tags are not enough to properly describe your website
>>>to a search spider/robot...then you are REALLY doing something
>>>wrong.
>>
>>Google stopped reading and evaluating keywords years ago. Sorry you
>>weren't invited to the party.
>
>
> Is that so?

Pretty much:
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2165061
http://www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=102
http://www.seo-gold.com/tutorial/meta-tags-optimization.html#description-meta-tag


> http://www.google.com/search?biw=en&q=Backwater+Productions
> :Backwater Productions
> :Backwater Productions offers website design, logo design, video editing and copy editing at some of the best prices you'll find!
> :www.backwater-productions.net/ - 2k - Jun 29, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
>

If I'm not mistaken, that's your *description* tag it's listing, not
your *keywords* tag?

Besides, whilst Google may *list* your page on a SERP using your
description tag, when it comes to indexing and ranking, this is based
(as a general rule) on actual page content rather than meta details.

However, either way, this discussion is rather academic if your page
contains no content other than Javascript-generated, as your chances of
being ranked are virtually zero, I would imagine.

Actual page content and appropriate HTML markup are increasingly
becoming the most important factors in search-engine results.


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Oli

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