Are there any plans to implement a "negative keyword" meta tag?

[cschuler84]

A "keywords-not" META tag would be extremely useful. The company I work for sells plastic tubes. As a result, our Chinese website shows up on searches for "tube8" (The internet IS for porn, after all). About 20% of the visitors to our Chinese website are searching for tube8. It would be nice if there were a way to clarify that our 8" plastic tubes are NOT the same thing as tube8. Also, our "plastic nipple caps" and "vinyl insertion plugs" aren't as nearly as interesting as they may sound.

[MrTiggerito]

It took me 3 months to realise my question had been answered! Thanks Matt.

The hits aren't happening any more as the blog post has aged. The owner said he's no too proud where his donations come from, every penny helps.

It may be a sign that not enough websites provide "girls in bathrooms" content. It could be a good niche to get into ;-)

[MrJamesBond007]

Hey, That's my hometown too. Great to hear a question from way DownUnder in Adelaide, South Australia. Now where do I submit questions to Matt? A particular Google blog or website?

[drekaham]

hi matt, what's the max. number of links on 1 url today? i heard that it's more then 100. is it true? thank you, tastro

[cedivad]

Can we send question to the guy? How?

[bizzchannel]

why u are surprised? yes it is a error from your part. Google and the semantic web and personalization --plus soo many updates. We cant find NOTHING on Google. Im surprised no one has say nothing--so im assuming because they blaming their site like this person. Is soo bad that i started using 7search to get relevant results.

[facundocorradini]

Just block the article's page. (robots.txt or noindex meta-tag)

[howardyermish]

The negative keyword could really help with language nuance in places where the algorithm has a hard time discerning a commonly used word with a brand name or different part of speech or even humor. The person searching can refine search that negates keywords, so why not let the page author do the same - might even lead to better matches.

[SebastianXgib]

Instead of complaining, better make creative use of unrelated traffic. For a tutorial search Sebastian's Pamphlets for "There's no such thing as bad traffic, just weak monetizing!"

[Hatikvahh]

notice how they're transcribing questions to the video description. it means that a video with no description could not rank well in google

[thijsvanleeuwen]

robots.txt?

[lokeshs211]

ya you are right what is the need of this work for SEO world. It is not important for organic seo work, every one wants good keyword and good SERP for online business. If it comes in existence competitor should use this trick and start black hat practices...

[cici254]

Please implement that tag!

[serialstv]

@cici254

why? It will be so complicated.

[bigal21110]

I can just see abuses of negative keyword meta tags if it was offered! Matt is right that is a search quality issue.

[TGcommercial]

@bigal21110 What's one example you have where it would be bad for search quality? I think Matt said very few webamsters would use it because it limits your traffic. How could you abuse that?

[ANDiTKO]

Well, how about a new html tag like [noindex] wich is supported by some search engines. Or [span rel="noidex"] or something like this. Because sometimes we want to hide parts of the site and not entire pages.

You can hide parts using PHP ,detecting the googlebot agent and displaying different content to users. But avoid it! This can ban your site from indexing !!!

[cosy18]

robots.txt and block that URL

[smoothgraphics]

@cosy18 What URL? You can't just block only Google, there are thousands of search engines. Could be possible by generating a blocker with a RegEx for "girls in bathrooms" phrase anywhere in the URL. But even this doesn't work in crypted URLs (base64)...

[figurethis2]

Good question... bonus it wasn't landlubber (again) asking it either

[todnyc]

@figurethis2 landlubber is a sockpuppet for... ok, just kidding

[TGcommercial]

@todnyc Landlubber gets all the space so Matt doesn't answer my question :( I even emailed Matt once but I think he put me in his spam folder :O

[todnyc]

@TGcommercial Then stop offering debt consolidation, mortgage refinancing, free online gambling, viagra, cialis, and extenze. peace

[webbusinesskit]

@figurethis2 landlubber - that dude is everywhere!

[BrightSoul80]

Lol @ 0:33 but please be aware that someone IS taking an unfair advantage of that fact. For instance, there's a site here in Italy whose domain name is a brand that translates to "big tits". It's an ecommerce, not a naked ladies website. Despite that fact, It ranks #1 when you search for big tits, even with SafeSearch disabled. Why you're ranking it first just because of its domain name is beyond me. Obviously, its content is not relevant to what I was looking for. At all.

[andruha11234]

would be much easier to just change the content a little and remove phrases like "girls in bathrooms" with something else.

[mhaidarhanif]

How about reinvent the new Google Bot for overcome that little-BIG problem?

[TGcommercial]

Maybe sites could tag themselves with meta ADULT or meta NOADULT and Google could take that into consideration.

[BrightSoul80]

@TGcommercial

There's a meta for that

[meta name="rating" content="Safe For Kids" /]

I wonder if Googlebot does take this into account. Whoever searched "girls in bathroom" was obviosuly not looking for a "safe for kids" website.

There's also the ICRA labels that could do the same job done.

[thelostagency]

please please do offer something :)

[nqkoi159]

Just change the title