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SEO - all about Keywords - guidelines, tools and other resources
You can find pointers to various official guidelines, articles and free online tools related to keywords in this article.
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1. Introduction
The keywords attributeThe keywords attribute used in a meta element is intended to provide the top keywords associated to the web-page's content especially to the search engine's. For more information check out this Wikipedia article. used in a meta element is intended to provide the top keywords associated to the web-page's content especially to the search engines.
1.1. Importance of keywords
"Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the meta element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on meta elements. In July 2002 AltaVista, one of the last major search engines to still offer support, finally stopped considering them.
No consensus exists whether or not the keywords
attribute has any impact on ranking at any of the major search engines
today. It is speculated that it does, if the keywords used in the meta can also be found in the page copy itself. With respect to Google, thirty-seven leaders in search engine optimization concluded in April 2007 that the relevance of having your keywords in the meta-attribute keywords is little to none. However, the same article also suggests that Yahoo
still makes use of the keywords meta tag"Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes." - For more information check out this Wikipedia article. in some of its rankings. Yahoo
itself claims support for the keyword meta tag in conjunction with
other factors for improving search rankings." - From the Wikipedia article.
2. Articles
From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_tag#The_keywords_attribute
3. Google AdWords Keyword Tool
Service Provided - Keyword ideas for phrases and web pages.
Link - https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Obviously from a trusted source - Google. This is a brilliant tool that gives you keyword ideas for phrases or even existing web pages. I find the second option very useful as it lets me tweak/re-organise my webpage keywords based on its content to get better search engine visibility.
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