Google Can’t Be Gamed; At Least Not by Meta Keywords

Courtesy Mashable!  Mon, 09/21/2009 - 12:27

Back in the day, one could often attain high search engine rankings simply by filling the meta “keywords” tag of their website with targeted (or untargeted) terms.

Of course, search engines became hip to the fact webmasters and spammers were trying to game this system and largely started to ignore or at least de-emphasize the importance of the keywords tag in their algorithms.

Now, Google has hopefully once and for all confirmed that the tag...


 

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