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michael lists-at-genoverly.net |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:

>On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:07:39 -0400
>michael <lists at genoverly.net> wrote:
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>>I have a client that someone has convinced that gobs of meta tags in
>>the headers is vital to the success of their website.  I'm happy to
>>comply, but, aren't some of these meta tags soooo 90's?
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>Hey, great discussion, thanks for the insight!
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Funny how something as trivial as meta tags leads to insightful 
discussions, but it is always true. I see post after post on SEO forums 
about how meta tags are dead, yet barely a decent discussion of *why* or 
*how* they might be useful. Here, we really didn't even get into most of 
the meta tags... there was so much to talk about around the meta tag 
issue an done example of meta robots.

Now how about the isue as many people will have interpreted it? Do the 
meta-keywords and meta-description tags have any value today?

Hop on over to search.msn.com and run a query. Take "php training" (no 
quotes) for example. Now look at the top 5 results. View source for 
each. What do you see? You see title text and meta-desc and meta-kw 
aligning with SERP rank, except in the most obvious cases of authority 
(php.net). Now try it again with something less competitive... what do 
you see?

90% of SEO is as hard as washing your car. Everybody can do it, and if 
they put a little work into it they can do a great job. But do they?


-=john andrews
http://www.seo-fun.com



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