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It is my firm belief that attempts to game the keywords meta tag 
demonstrate nothing more than a failure to understand SEO. The keyword 
meta tag has some relevance in some search marketing situations, but 
there is no reason for it not to simply list a small number of relevant 
keywords separated with commas. Of course there are always hacks and 
exploits, so if you enjoy chasing those ignore my comment because I know 
of no such opportunity with this.

As for penalties, stuffing your keyword meta tag shouldn't hurt you at 
all, but it might earn you a reputation for not understanding SEO. I 
know some SEOs who use the keywords meta tag to mislead their competitors.

As for comments, yes that can earn a serious response from search 
engines. Not so much because it works, but because it demonstrates an 
obvious intent to game the system. please don't tell that realtor. It's 
better for all of us if those spamming realtors stay out of the 
legitimate search results.

Happily submitted......

john andrews
SEO and competitive web consultant in Seattle
blogging on issues of Competitive Webmastering at www.johnon.com



Peter Sawczynec ps-at-sun-code.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal group 
use| wrote:

>Recently I was examining some meta data and found some meta data
>keywords entered like so [meta data snippet]: 
>"mountainview+real+estate, orange+real+estate, las vegas".
>
>Is this keyword with plus signs entry style attempting to:
>a) literally match users entering "mountainview+real+estate" as a search
>term, 
>b) attempting to match any occurrences of those three words and any
>other words (noise) entered in between (Can this actually work in meta
>data?),
>or
>c) trying to communicate to the search engine (google) to accept these
>meta data keywords as a keyword phrase?
>
>Additionally, what is the attempted result of extra keywords being
>loaded into the Head section as a comment like so:
><!-- real estate, mountainview, broker, country homes -->
>
>Would the above comments effort lead to search engine penalty?
>
>If you can provide some info I'd appreciate hearing.
>
>Warmest regards, 
> 
>Peter Sawczynec 
>Technology Dir.
>Sun-code Interactive
>Sun-code.com 
>646.316.3678 
>ps at sun-code.com
>
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