Sorry, Yahoo, You DO Index The Meta Keywords Tag
Oct 14, 2009 at 2:31pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Oh, that this weren't true. Last week, Yahoo made news by disclosing that it had quietly dropped support for the meta keywords tag. As a long time hater of that tag and the insane questions it has produced, I was thrilled! But today, I see conclusively that Yahoo still supports the tag.
The test was simple. I placed a unique word in the meta keywords tag on the home page of Search Engine Land. This word -- xcvteuflsowkldlslkslklsk -- generated no results on Yahoo when I looked earlier this week. Today, when I searched, it brought back the Search Engine Land home page. Thus, Yahoo indeed ind [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Microsoft: Bing SEO, SEO: Tagging, SEO: Titles & Descriptions, SEO: Writing & Body Copy, Top News, Yahoo: SEO
Yahoo Search No Longer Uses Meta Keywords Tag
Oct 6, 2009 at 2:15pm ET by Barry Schwartz
And then there were none. Yahoo has long been the only major search engine that supported the meta keywords tag. However, the search engine revealed today that like the other majors, it no longer supports it.
The news came during the Ask The Search Engines session at SMX East in New York today. The search engines were all asked about their support of the tag. Moderator Danny Sullivan noted that only Yahoo provided support of the tag -- prompting Cris Pierry, senior director of search at Yahoo, to announce that support actually had been ended unannounced "several" months ago.
Bing doesn't [...]
Filed in: SEO: General, SEO: Tagging, SEO: Titles & Descriptions, SEO: Writing & Body Copy, Top News, Yahoo: SEO
Google’s Advice On Using The New Canonical Tag
Mar 13, 2009 at 9:19am ET by Barry Schwartz
A month ago, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced they will be supporting a new canonical tag that allows you to tell search engines that page X is a duplicate page to page Z. In a way, it is a 301 redirect, without the physical redirect.
The tag is incredibly powerful, as are 301 redirects and using this tag should be done with caution and slowly. Matt Cutts posted a new video explaining how one should go about using this tag, being that it is so new. Here is the video:
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Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Webmaster Central, SEO: Blocking Spiders, SEO: Duplicate Content, SEO: Redirects & Moving Sites, SEO: Submitting & Sitemaps, SEO: Tagging, SEO: Titles & Descriptions
Effective Tagging For Both Usability & SEO
Nov 15, 2007 at 8:10am ET by Stephan Spencer
In this era of Web 2.0, it seems that blogs, mash-ups, RSS feeds, and wikis have been the buzzwords occupying most of the limelight. But personally, tagging is the Web 2.0 technology that excites me the most, because of its versatility and wide applicability.
A tag, according to Wikipedia, is "a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (e.g. a picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information." More simply put (with due credit to Flickr.com): tags are like keyword or category labels, an [...]
Filed in: 100% Organic, SEO: Tagging
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