[Web4lib] Google and meta keyword tags

[Jorge Serrano Cobos]

What you can use (if you wish) is meta description tag, beter in Dublin
Core, better in Dublin Core for XHTML, because sometimes Google uses it for
the SERPS (Search engine results pages)

It can be seen when a result does not offer enough context / text to be
shown in the abstract, below the page title.

Hope this helps. Cheers,

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Jorge Serrano Cobos
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2006/12/7, Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>:
>
> On 12/7/2006 3:47 PM, Drew, Bill 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.
> >
>
> I don't know that search engines ever indexed comments, but the same
> idea applies.  Within the last year or so (IIRC), Googlebot changed from
> a Lynx-based browser to a Gecko-based browser like Firefox and Mozilla.
> At the time, the assumption was that they were doing this to help them
> detect tricks like white-on-white or black-on-black text, text set to
> unreadably small font sizes, absolute positioning to place a block of
> text far off-screen, etc.  They've all been employed to shovel keywords
> into search engines.
>
>
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
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