From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 6 18: 6:40 2000 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 18:06:39 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1967237B401 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:06:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eB726VF15765; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:06:31 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:06:31 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: chip Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: off topic in chat? Search Engines question Message-ID: <20001206180631.A15059@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3A2EE94F.AF592D18@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A2EE94F.AF592D18@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:35:11PM -0800 Sender: brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:35:11PM -0800, chip wrote: > I have been asked to put some new meta keywords on a web > site I made, and the client wants to use almost 30. I have > tried to explain to them that is probably too many. > I have emailed several search engine admins asking them > what they consider an appropriate amount, or max number of > keywords in the meta tags. > What are the opinions of the people on this list of this topic? Meta tags may well be dead. Google doesn't use them because they are basicaly useless (99.999% of sites with META keywords just make them up to get hits.) I suspect other search engines will be moving in the same direction since everyone is moving towards a model more like google's then like early search engines. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message