SEO Tycoon

**benicio** · 03-21-2011, 05:10 PM

when you add define tag to keywords, will it affect SEO?

**full house** · 03-21-2011, 08:43 PM

you mean meta keywords? I don't think it will affect your SEO. If you put it on the content or in meta title it would affect.

**Benmoore47** · 03-22-2011, 04:05 AM

What do you mean define tags? I can't get your point.

**chrishirst** · 03-22-2011, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by full house

you mean meta keywords? I don't think it will affect your SEO. If you put it on the content or in meta title it would affect.

HTML Code:

<meta name="title" content="some text" ?>

IS NOT NOT NOT used by search engines!!!!!!!!!!

**chrishirst** · 03-22-2011, 01:07 PM

<dfn>Word description</dfn> is the define ELEMENT

and the " SEO Value" is probably ≸0

**Benmoore47** · 03-23-2011, 02:05 AM

I see Chris. Well, it affects. It is a good factor in SEO for it adds weight on the keyword.

**chrishirst** · 03-23-2011, 11:25 AM

How do you work out that it "adds weight"??

It's merely a formatting element that changes the visual rendering of the words in the element (in some browsers) why would that make it a factor for Search?

**rolda hayes** · 03-23-2011, 07:44 PM

Because an "Expert" once said it did.

Come on Chris, you should know this by now...

**benicio** · 03-24-2011, 01:12 AM

okay so can anyone make this clearer for readers please..

**Sierra Charlie** · 03-24-2011, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by benicio

okay so can anyone make this clearer for readers please..

As soon as you include <meta name="something"> in front of something, the SEO value of that specific thing hits the bottom.

The only instance in which <meta name="something"> has any value at all is when you use <meta name="description">.

**PaulW** · 03-24-2011, 03:37 AM

Meta description is also discounted now by al the major search engines when determining page ranking.

Stop reading three year old eBooks and follow the discussions in reputable forums, inclduing what Google themselves are saying. If you haven't yet picked up the message that unique content is key and that results are being re-evaluated as we speak to give credit to unique content then you're wasting your time. And two fingers to all the content-stealing, article-spinning wankers out there.

**StoneWilson** · 03-24-2011, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by PaulW

Meta description is also discounted now by al the major search engines when determining page ranking.

Stop reading three year old eBooks and follow the discussions in reputable forums, inclduing what Google themselves are saying. If you haven't yet picked up the message that unique content is key and that results are being re-evaluated as we speak to give credit to unique content then you're wasting your time. And two fingers to all the content-stealing, article-spinning wankers out there.

When there is no SEO, unique contents is the King, now after SEO developed so many years, search engine bring the King back.
P.s. I just need one finger to express myself well...

**chrishirst** · 03-24-2011, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by PaulW

Stop reading three year old eBooks and follow the discussions in reputable forums, inclduing what Google themselves are saying. If you haven't yet picked up the message that unique content is key and that results are being re-evaluated as we speak to give credit to unique content then you're wasting your time.

A 100% uneqivocable YES!!!!! to this!

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Originally Posted by PaulW

And two fingers to all the content-stealing, article-spinning wankers out there.

And this especially

**chrishirst** · 03-24-2011, 08:43 AM

Search ~~Engine~~ Optimisation is, and always has been a misnomer.

You are NOT optimising for the engines, you are optimising for the USERS of the search engines, so the process should have been called OfSU (Optimisation for Search Users) that way no one would ever have been confused about the intended target of the process.

Search providers only want ONE THING:

To be able to show the best pages to the their users that matches their query.

This has been the case ever since search engines emerged from the primordial slime and began evolving. There are no "tricks", no "secret sauce" and no shortcuts.
Provide pages that are the best they can be (optimal) for your intended visitors, and the search engines (all of them) will reward your efforts with extra traffic.

By applying your efforts based on this premise rather than the flawed premise of needing to find a flaw that can be exploited for a short while, will prevent your traffic from disappearing suddenly when that flaw is removed.

**john edword** · 03-24-2011, 01:47 PM

According to my knowledge yes it do affect and we can not completely ignore meta keywords.

**benicio** · 03-24-2011, 05:30 PM

aren't anchor text concidered a meta tag?

**iproficientseolx** · 03-24-2011, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by benicio

aren't anchor text concidered a meta tag?

Anchor text and meta tags are two different thing and can not be considered as same..... anchor text is used for promotional and to optimize your targeting keyword, where as meta tags serve a complete different propose...