Comments on: Meta Tags Are Dead. Get Over It. http://www.johnconde.net/blog/meta-tags-are-dead-get-over-it/ John Conde's blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Johnny http://www.johnconde.net/blog/meta-tags-are-dead-get-over-it/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Johnny Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:45:24 +0000 http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=24#comment-78 <i>Same goes for anchor text, but anchor text is nevertheless a big part of Google. So, I would have to disagree with you.</i> Um, anchor text is <b>very</b> visible. After all, how can someone click on a link they can't see? Same goes for anchor text, but anchor text is nevertheless a big part of Google. So, I would have to disagree with you.

Um, anchor text is very visible. After all, how can someone click on a link they can’t see?

]]> By: Nick Wilsdon http://www.johnconde.net/blog/meta-tags-are-dead-get-over-it/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Nick Wilsdon Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:37:17 +0000 http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=24#comment-77 Well you finally come round in the last paragraph and state why META description can be useful. It's your sales pitch to get the user to click through to your site and not one of the other 9 on the page. That alone makes it valuable. It's also worth noting that Yahoo! uses the META keywords tag, so you can slip mis-spellings in here and avoid having to put them onto the page copy or title (which makes you look unprofessional). The reason I still rate them though is that they send a unique signal about the page to Google. When you're trying to avoid the supplementary index you need all the unique signals you can get. Putting in a universal META description would not help or leaving the tag out entirely, as Google may end up grabbing the same first few lines for all your pages. I do agree about the time factor, this isn't an area which should be focused on and it's sad that for some companies this is still their main SEO strategy. For large sites it's well worth working with a programmer to create a dynamic template for the tag, so you automatically use unique content from each page. Well you finally come round in the last paragraph and state why META description can be useful. It’s your sales pitch to get the user to click through to your site and not one of the other 9 on the page. That alone makes it valuable.

It’s also worth noting that Yahoo! uses the META keywords tag, so you can slip mis-spellings in here and avoid having to put them onto the page copy or title (which makes you look unprofessional).

The reason I still rate them though is that they send a unique signal about the page to Google. When you’re trying to avoid the supplementary index you need all the unique signals you can get. Putting in a universal META description would not help or leaving the tag out entirely, as Google may end up grabbing the same first few lines for all your pages.

I do agree about the time factor, this isn’t an area which should be focused on and it’s sad that for some companies this is still their main SEO strategy. For large sites it’s well worth working with a programmer to create a dynamic template for the tag, so you automatically use unique content from each page.

]]> By: John H. Gohde http://www.johnconde.net/blog/meta-tags-are-dead-get-over-it/comment-page-1/#comment-76 John H. Gohde Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:18:34 +0000 http://www.johnconde.net/blog/?p=24#comment-76 <b><i>"if the content is not visible to the user and has absolutely no effect on their experience viewing/using the web page, then should it be considered when ranking the page? No! Why should it be?"</i></b> Same goes for anchor text, but anchor text is nevertheless a big part of Google. So, I would have to disagree with you. “if the content is not visible to the user and has absolutely no effect on their experience viewing/using the web page, then should it be considered when ranking the page? No! Why should it be?”

Same goes for anchor text, but anchor text is nevertheless a big part of Google. So, I would have to disagree with you.

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