 Ding Dong The Tag Is Dead, Yahoo! claims to drop meta keywords tag (but did they really?) |
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 Oct 9 2009, 06:04 AM
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 Convert Me!  Group: Admin Posts: 17,540 Joined: 17-August 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 07:06 PM Member No.: 551  |
Woot! Goodie, then I don't have to wait for slow poke Slurp to get around to indexing my new test page.
I suppose they should update their Help Pages then, cuz that's like the first place I checked to see if they'd removed the reference there to using the keyword meta. As of today it still says in one item QUOTE Use a "keyword" meta-tag to list keywords for each page of your website. Use distinct lists of keywords that relate to each specific page on the site. Do not use one broad set of keywords for the entire site. Source: Yahoo! Search Topics > Search Indexing and Ranking > Search Ranking > How do I improve the ranking of my web site in the search results? |
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Oct 9 2009, 08:30 AM
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 High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,889 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 08:06 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
Guess what guys. Yahoo DOES INDEED index the Meta Keyword tag.
My page shows up for my word. So they are apparently liars, or don't even know what their own engine does. |
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Oct 9 2009, 09:20 AM
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 Keep Asking, Keep Questioning, Keep Learning  Group: Active Members Posts: 2,041 Joined: 24-May 07 User's local time: Aug 1 2010, 01:06 AM From: Worthing - England Member No.: 17,339 |
Go get em' Jill (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ranting.gif)
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Oct 9 2009, 09:34 AM
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 HR 4 Group: Active Members Posts: 237 Joined: 24-May 06 User's local time: Aug 1 2010, 01:06 AM From: Welwyn Garden City Member No.: 11,873 |
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Oct 9 2009, 05:21 PM
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HR 9 Group: Active Members Posts: 3,915 Joined: 5-April 05 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 05:06 PM From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 7,091 |
Mamma mia.
Holy mackeral. ...oboy... |
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Oct 9 2009, 07:42 PM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,889 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 08:06 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
Seriously? Does that surprise anyone? I would have actually been shocked if my test didn't show that they still indexed it. Why would they suddenly turn it off.
Frankly, I'm kinda surprised that OWG and other's tests show it didn't index it. Not sure what the tests were. If anyone wants to know my secret word, let me know and I'll pm you. I don't want to say it publicly because others might make it public thus affecting the test. |
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Oct 10 2009, 12:52 PM
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HR 6 Group: Active Members Posts: 826 Joined: 16-September 03 User's local time: Aug 1 2010, 01:06 AM From: Cornwall Member No.: 824 |
Is it not possible that KW tag contents already factored in will stay there, but any new KW Content will be ignored as in new pages etc..
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Oct 10 2009, 01:31 PM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,889 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 08:06 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
Nope, cuz i just added the keyword into the tag after the announcement was made. The date of this thread, in fact. And it was a new page that Yahoo hadn't indexed yet, but was on the verge of (Google already had it indexed before I added the keyword.)
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Oct 10 2009, 07:28 PM
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HR 6 Group: Active Members Posts: 826 Joined: 16-September 03 User's local time: Aug 1 2010, 01:06 AM From: Cornwall Member No.: 824 |
Thanks for the clarification Jill
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Oct 11 2009, 09:15 AM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,889 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 08:06 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
Just learned something else interesting about Yahoo. I had put up two different test words on two different pages. The first one indexed quickly and provided the results I've already mentioned.
But I just searched for my second word that's on a different page, which apparently is now indexed by yahoo, and what they showed was a search results page from my own site search. Funny thing is it was a site search for the exact word I was testing! They're not, however, pulling up the actual page of my site where the word is in the Meta keyword tag. This page is one level deeper down in my site from my first test, which might mean it's in a sort of supplementary results database if they do things at all like Google. Now, I never did a site search on my site for that word, nor had I even told anyone about that second word. I had done a few searches at Yahoo for it over the past few days, however. So I'm really not sure how or why they would put that word into our site search engine and then index the resulting page. (I've since blocked the search results pages in general from being indexed...which I thought I had already done, but apparently I hadn't.) Weird... |
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Oct 11 2009, 09:48 AM
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HR 6 Group: Active Members Posts: 826 Joined: 16-September 03 User's local time: Aug 1 2010, 01:06 AM From: Cornwall Member No.: 824 |
Please tell me that doesn't suggest that a Bot filled in a form.
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Oct 11 2009, 09:55 AM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,889 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 08:06 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
I don't see any other way they'd get that page. I knew Google filled out search boxes with weird words, but never knew how they chose the words to fill in.
In a way, choosing words in the meta keyword tag to fill in as it appears Yahoo has done makes a lot of sense. |
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Oct 12 2009, 02:59 AM
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 Work is Fun  Group: Moderator Posts: 4,658 Joined: 31-July 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 08:06 PM From: Neath, South Wales, UK Member No.: 110 |
I gotta go and check my test page now . (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Oct 12 2009, 08:39 AM
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High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,889 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 08:06 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
Okay, Yahoo is now showing both that search result page (from my site) plus the actual 2nd test page for my test word. I expect the search result one to fall out soon when they notice I blocked it via robots.txt
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Oct 19 2009, 08:35 AM
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 HR 3 Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 25-June 09 User's local time: Jul 31 2010, 07:06 PM Member No.: 26,115 |
QUOTE(OldWelshGuy @ Oct 8 2009, 03:43 AM)  This was in google. I took from there that google does use it asas a signal for part of spam identification, but not as a positive factor, or rather it has or can have a higher negative affect than positive. So, I can conclude that having a meta keyword that matches the page content is a kind of immunity against spam (even for 1%) ? If so, Yes meta keywords may have a certain positive affect ! at least for new websites .. no? |
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