[Web4lib] Google and meta keyword tags

[Dan Scott]

Bill:

What you're trying to do would be called "spider-food" (feeding the
web crawler, get it?), and you should be warned Google penalizes the
rankings of sites that it suspects of trying to manipulate its ranking
system.

See Google's "Webmaster Guidelines":
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Dan

On 07/12/06, Drew, Bill <drewwe at morrisville.edu> wrote:
> So if I want a word like agriculture_database I need to have it out in
> the open and visible to who ever looks at the page?
> I would assume that putting such things in comments so they didn't
> display would be a bad thing to do as well.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Bill Drew
> drewwe at morrisville.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
>
> On 12/7/2006 3:11 PM, Drew, Bill wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if Google indexes meta keyword tags?  I do not want
> to
> > use them for page rank.  I want to use them with my Google CSE.
> >
>
>
> No, they're too susceptible to index spamming.
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