- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:16:19 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > Olivier GENDRIN wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Current experts in the field of SEO clearly believe >>> that @rel=keywords is of little to no use in the real world, and >>> several (I linked two of them) bluntly recommend not using it at all. >> >> It's a mistake to limit keyword to CEO, for example, twine bookmarklet >> automatically gets page keywords to prefill the keywords of a bookmark >> (and the same for description). > > Indeed. > > There are other use cases as well; for instance one CMS I happen to know > uses these keywords in order to populate a context-sensitive navigation bar. Interesting. To all: I stand corrected; there are valid reasons to use meta keywords within relatively trusted contexts. The original email from Julian and the bug referenced therein both refer to their use within search engines, which primarily means the open-web, referral-based search engines, and for which meta keywords *are* a failed experiment with little relevance today. ~TJ
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