ADDING
KEYWORDS USING THE
META TAG
Maximum
- 800 characters.
Adding keywords
simply requires editing the HTML code and adding the meta tag, as in
the following example. The top of a web page source code on your site
might look like:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Sooke BC - SookeHarbour.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>SookeHarbour.com: Complete vacation, accommodation and
online business directory to Sooke BC</H1>
Create a META tag with the following information:
<META
name="keywords" content="Sooke">
To add additional keywords,
<META
name="keywords" content="Sooke, Vancouver Island, BC">
actual example
The top of your HTML document would then look like:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Sooke BC - SookeHarbour.com</TITLE>
<META
name="keywords" content="Sooke, Vancouver Island, BC">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>SookeHarbour.com: Complete vacation, accommodation and
online business directory to Sooke BC</H1>
Questions and answers about META keywords
Q) META keywords tag - should I use UPPERCASE, lowercase or a mixture,
commas or spaces?
A) Use lowercase - except for geographical names which ordinarily
start with a capital letter such as "Sooke", separated by commas, with a space after the comma.
Q) If I have several keyword phrases in my META keywords tag that all
contain the same keyword, will I get penalized? For example:
<META
NAME="keywords" CONTENT="gold jewelry, diamond jewelry, silver
jewelry, platinum jewelry">
This would represent four repetitions of the word 'jewelry'.
A) I personally do not believe in spamming or putting multiple
keywords throughout the page. This is too easy to check for and the
search engines are not stupid. If we can think of it they already
have. Most engines only count to 2 for keywords, so why waste the
keyword utilization. Put in other keywords.
Q) Will I be penalized for using the same keywords on a lot of
different pages that have the same content?
A) If the pages have exactly the same content, why are they in your
site? If they are all related to the same subject, they can logically
have the same keywords, but the Description tag would be different.
Q) What is the optimum number of keywords before the engine gets
bored?
A) It varies. Some are more easily bored than others. I don't usually
repeat keywords, maybe twice for the important ones. It's better to
show up adequately on all the engines than perfectly on one and badly
on the rest.
Q) Will the engines treat a phrase such as handmade gifts that is
written as a keyword phrase the same as if it were written as two
different words? Should I write them out both ways?
A) Use: "hand made gift, handmade gifts" to cover all the possible
variations searchers might enter.
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