Meta Descriptions and Keywords

[stato77]

How many keywords should be focused on in meta keywords? Is it better to go for 2 or 3 etc or go for a list of 15-20? Will having 15-20 been seen as stuffing and dilute the power of the keywords. I know that meta keywords are'nt as important as they used to be but i still want to get them right.

How long should meta descriptions be?

Thanks

 

[Keepsmilin]

How many keywords should be focused on in meta keywords? Is it better to go for 2 or 3 etc or go for a list of 15-20? Will having 15-20 been seen as stuffing and dilute the power of the keywords. I know that meta keywords are'nt as important as they used to be but i still want to get them right.

How long should meta descriptions be?

Thanks

Not really my area of expertise. However this is what was told to me by my friend who is a webdesigner-- With respect to keywords, you can have 20 to 30 words or more. What you need to focus on is most relevant keywords then picking on anything and everything!!

Ideal description must be between 10-20 words.

Hope this helps.

Cheers


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[pete_m]

Personally I ignore meta keywords - Google ignores them, as do Yahoo and MSN.

Meta descriptions are very useful, however. As a rule of thumb, try and make them between 80-150 characters (Google displays up to around 158-160), and include your main page keywords - but don't appear spammy!

 

[mattsaw]

Yes, the keyword tag has been so heavily spammed that most search engines no ignore it. The title tag is very important and then reinforce your primary and secondary keywords with the description tag and on-page factors.

 

[stato77]

Thanks a lot

In regards to h2 tags

Can a small paragraph have h2 or is it better to stick to keywords

 

[pete_m]

The ideal SEO page would have a single H1 tag that agrees with the Title tag. It'd also have a number of H2 tags that echo the general page theme. For example:

Title: Green Widgets
h1 tag: Green Widgets
(paragraph blurb)
h2: What are Green Widgets?
(blurb)
h2: Where can I buy Green Widgets?
(blurb)
h2: Widgets also come in Red and Blue
(blurb)

The blurb would also be about Green Widgets, of course. But be careful of keyword stuffing - mention other types of widgets, and use synonyms too - khaki wotsits, and lime doodleflips, for example.

and so on...

 

[ArtooTeetoo]

Hi,
here is some key facts which I think are interesting to consider in SEO :

- The big three search engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN – seemingly account for around 75% of the Internet's search traffic, by extrapolation, it appears that the remaining, lesser known search engines must handle 25% of the traffic between them, which amounts to about 950 million searches a month.
So if you aren't deliberately targeting the smaller engines, you are neglecting, even rejecting some 25% of your potential customers...

- The Title is one of the most important tags insofar as search engine listings are concerned. This is the one that appears as the first line of your listing. As such, it should contain the keywords and key phrases that people would key into a search engine in order to find your products and services.

- The first few lines of copy in your homepage will often be grabbed by the search engines and used as a description of your site in their listing. So your opening paragraph should be designated by an H1 tag so that its importance is obvious to the robot.

Hope that helps too

 

Hi,
here is some key facts which I think are interesting to consider in SEO :

- The big three search engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN – seemingly account for around 75% of the Internet's search traffic, by extrapolation, it appears that the remaining, lesser known search engines must handle 25% of the traffic between them, which amounts to about 950 million searches a month.
So if you aren't deliberately targeting the smaller engines, you are neglecting, even rejecting some 25% of your potential customers...

spot on so don't neglect your meta keywords tag as a lot of smaller engines use them and as said 25% is a lot of peeps.

I run some pretty sucessfull sites that get hardly any traffic from Google.

Earl

 

[mattsaw]

spot on so don't neglect your meta keywords tag as a lot of smaller engines use them and as said 25% is a lot of peeps.

I run some pretty sucessfull sites that get hardly any traffic from Google.

Earl

UK search share is vastly different. In the UK the breakdown is,

Google - 79%
Yahoo - 8%
Ask - 5%
MSN - 4% + Live - 2%

'Others' only account for 2% - many of which only syndicate search feeds from the serach engines mentioned in the list above.

Personally I include a meta keywords tag, more for usablity more than anything else, however the fact is if you're not in Google, then you're missing out on a MASSIVe proportion of potentail serach traffic.

 

[guylevine]

The other thing to remember is that if the meta description is not relevant to the page, Google will actually ditch it and choose something more relevant from the rest of the page!