- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:03:04 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > ... > http://searchenginewatch.com/2165061 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element#The_keywords_attribute > http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#f5 > http://www.searchengineguide.com/richard-ball/meta-keywords-a.php > > Most search engines completely ignore it. Yahoo still uses it, but > admits it places little importance on the value. It's not clear > whether or not Google uses it, but the SEO experts in the SEOMOZ > article clearly believe it has little to no value when optimizing for > the big G. > ... Interesting, but no proof. I happen to know that a certain crawler I helped writing many years ago *does* extract keywords. Maybe it makes a difference on whether you're crawling "trusted" data or not, though. But that shouldn't influence the HTML5 language itself, only potentially advice on how and when to use it. BR, Julian
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