• When, Why and How to Construct a Meta Description Tag
• DMOZ Description Showing in Google
• Title Tags, Meta Descriptions and Keywords
• What Exactly are META tags?

Wow, that was profound. Or should I say a waste of time.

Posted by: Expected More on June 12, 2008

i feel much better now

Posted by: jeanniem on June 12, 2008

I thought so too..

Posted by: Louis Liem on June 12, 2008

The only true waste of time discussing the keyword meta tag would be to actually discuss it as if it has any value or relevance. Which, of course was the point. :)

Posted by: Stoney deGeyter on June 12, 2008

LOL

Posted by: Richard Ball on June 12, 2008

Hehe...I can't wait to pass this bit of info on to my clients. I keep trying but I can never find the words.

Posted by: Carolyn Price on June 13, 2008

Good post. It still surprises me that people spend time writing about something that has no value.

Posted by: Scott Salwolke on June 13, 2008

Now that's some funny stuff!

Posted by: Patti Fousek on June 13, 2008

You finally put into words what I've been trying to tell clients for ages.

Posted by: Nick on June 16, 2008

These kind of posts is how you lose readers. I'm sure you have heard of link bait...this isn't it my friend.

Posted by: John M Weaver on June 16, 2008

LOL. Awesome. :)

Posted by: Scott Allen on June 16, 2008

Does everything have to be link bait? Seriously, this was a good post pointed at the people who do this every day.

Look at me I am twittering about it right now... Guess it was link bait. Don't believe me check it out http://twitter.com/cw360

Posted by: cw360 on June 16, 2008

LOL! That's a perfect tutorial for it.

Posted by: DazzlinDonna on June 16, 2008

Right as I was removing keyword tags for 140 pages of a site I just took over. Great post!

Posted by: Shanna on June 16, 2008

Originally when scanning articles I skipped right by it and deleted it. But it showed up again under Jenny's email via search engine guide and I noticed the author so I decided to take a closer look.

Oops, as I expected. Oh well.

Posted by: Michael Rock on June 17, 2008

I think your comments are a little unfair. Have you considered its relevance for internal search? I believe it definitely offers value there.

Posted by: Cheryl Hardy on June 17, 2008

Cheryl, you make a fair point. My comments were directly in terms of the value of the keyword tag for the major search engines, but it can certainly be used for in-site search. Though you can also custom create a meta take for in-site search either, you don't have to use the meta keywords tag. We have often recommended creating a unique tag for in-site search to prevent the keyword meta tag from appearing spammy. Thanks for your comment!

Posted by: Stoney deGeyter on June 18, 2008

The relevance is that there is no relevance to keywords. Or is it because google says it does not take not take meta keywords into consideration.

Maybe Google says one thing and does something else! to stop blackhatters.

If not for the comments the newbies would have no idea what this post is about.

Posted by: Manila Philippines on June 20, 2008

So Stoney,

You would recommend deleting out the Meta Keyword tag or just not worrying about it?

Posted by: Michael on June 20, 2008

I still add it, but don't do much more than throw in a few keywords and don't care abut commas or spacing or what have you. Others are content to leave it off altogether.

Posted by: Stoney deGeyter on June 20, 2008

Some web tools offer generating meta tags for you. Do you think this is a worthwhile thing to do? Thanks

Posted by: Puzzle Guy on September 15, 2008

Hi,
I'm sorry I can't read all your article about meta tag discritions. I'm ready now to read your article. I 'm now buiding my new site and I want to be sure how many key words in the metag discritions is long enough? If I put too many, would it affect my site ranking or not get indexed by google?

Posted by: Nguyen on September 21, 2008