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Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

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paponsalta (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Matt Ctts: are you the cutter? Well thanks to guide me to make my tags be better search. Well your respond is that tags are just a loose of time. Gat frustrated? Yes. What are the words to make my info easier to foud? From Salta, Argentina; Cristian Bustamante.
maryjanebrant (2 months ago) Show Hide
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I think this presenter was fantastic. Thank you for the information.

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mkarakas0690 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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thanx Matt for you usefull tips..
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winntastic (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Thank you, Matt, for all your helpful videos. The short, focused format is great for increasing retention, and encouraging action!
40thegardener (3 months ago) Show Hide
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I am sure he is right, what he fails to say is what they do use. I upload videos and cant even find them myself so dont expect others to find. Often no matter how many people upload an item one or two same names always come up in the search. Try typing in a Gospel song and see one name every where, Why is that.
viribiseo (4 months ago) Show Hide
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I have another question. What about rich snippet? Maybe you don t use metatag keyword content but you ll need some rules in order to evaluate the information...
The name is not metatag keyword or subject content but ...whatever de name is...
PersonalDevelopmentS (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Good points for web designers ... I do believe some other engines do take those into consideration still though so good to put some in as you pointed out in discription etc.




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Shane
almightyvegeta87 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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only meta description and keywords are required
out of which keywords tag is ignored by Google
teddyzetterlund (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Maybe it's just me being confused here. Required? From what I can see in the HTML spec no meta tags are _required_.

"User agents are not required to support meta data mechanisms. For those that choose to support meta data, this specification does not define how meta data should be interpreted."

Anyways, I'm just saying that there is still a lot of meta tags that can be useful (not only for SEO), so I don't agree with your statement "Forget meta tags i say.".

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