i've questions about META keywords.

if i should include both: [tutorial, tutorials ] ?
if i should write: [ download free pdf tutorials, download, pdf format, pdf, tutorial, tutorials, free download ] ?
what are the search criteria for pharases, singulars, plulars ?
also some spellings are little different like: quiz, quizzes.

please give suggestions for using META keywords.
other question is how META keywords are penalized by search engines e.g. GOOGLE ?

please provide as much information as you can, but only about "keywords of META" [i don't need other information].

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With most search engines, when you search for "quiz" it will find "quizzes", "quizzing", "quizzed", "quizzer" (is that a word?) etc.

You can include phrases in the keywords area, for example...

the keywords: download free pdf tutorials

the search: tutorial
or: download
or: <any other word in there>

... the search will probably find it (depending on the search engine).

Hope that enlightens you a bit,

Snib

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thank u snib.

Search engines like Google don't place much emphasis on meta keywords, since these have the high probability of being abused. Google indexes the text of the document itself in its own cache, then searches are preformed using the text of the document, e.g. the HTML source, this is how they highlight the search terms. Search ranking is acheived by how relevant the document is to the keywords found in it, this is determined by how many people click on the search result and the number of times the search term appears in the document. This is one of the reasons Google is a superior search engine, as opposed to those with paid ranking. So the best way to go is to strengthen the copy contained in each web page so it is more likely to pop up in search results.

Regards,
Rich

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Here's a particularly interesting addendum to explaining exactly what google is and how it processes queries. Its largely on the technical side as its a technical paper that discusses the advent of Google itself. But, what better place is there to learn the internals of Google?
http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/ful...21/com1921.htm


Regards,
Rich

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My main pages contain very little text since they mostly pull data from MySQL. I've added keywords only in the head of the index.php page.

Could hidden text be used instead?

You mentioned that Google determines relativity according to search keywords found in the document. Does this imply that a human does this?

Lastly, the url for Southern Cross University doesn't work. With the 7 removed from the www7, it gets there but they've pre-empted anyone getting to the file, so it seems.

Partial correction - Google assigns a search ranking based on how many other sites link to your site. The keywords in the webpage does play a role, but a smaller one and comes from a cache of the HTML itself.

Adding keywords is really futile (that is, adding lists of keywords). I would simply make the content as rich and descriptive as possible, having done so Google will do the rest on its own. To help your serach ranking along, start getting linking up from other sites. Avoid link farms, Google is on to them.

Of course if you really wanted to throw in lists of keywords. You could do so using 100% opacity on the element containing the keywords. Personally, I'd avoid that. It's a good way to get blacklisted. And you don't want to be there!

Don't know what happened to that link. Plenty of interesting stuff comes up when you search for it though:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...com1921.htm%22

Regards,
Rich

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