Re: meta tag location

2010-01-07 Thread Jerry Johnson
Google doesn't use the keywords metatag http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html But... http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html Good explanation on what it does with each meta tag http://g

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-07 Thread Jacob
Fresh, unique content and quality backlinks... that is 98% of the battle. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:22 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: meta tag location > From my research on several large commerce websites I h

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-07 Thread Jacob
The "title" tag is not a meta tag. Meta tags are mailto:te...@it-werks.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:49 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: meta tag location I think you better rethink that one. The Title Meta tag and the Meta Description tags are 2 very, very important tags as

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-07 Thread Dave Watts
> From my research on several large commerce websites I have worked on, Google > does not even use the Meta Description, page Title or URL for page rank or > position. In my own experience, the title is used for page rank, but I can't tell if it affects relevance. Page rank and relevance are, of

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Parker
they index on page content. ++ KPA ++ -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:les.cft...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2010 6:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: meta tag location I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few more on the

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Will Swain
Google and meta tags: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywo rds-meta-tag.html -Original Message- From: Kevin Pepperman [mailto:chorno...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 January 2010 06:16 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: meta tag location >From my research

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Pepperman
>From my research on several large commerce websites I have worked on, Google does not even use the Meta Description, page Title or URL for page rank or position. It may look like they do since they highlight the keywords in the results, but that does not mean it is used that way. Google does no

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
> I think you better rethink that one. The Title Meta tag and the Meta > Description tags are 2 very, very important tags as far as the search > engines go. Yes the meta keywords is no longer in use but for proof look in > the organic search for a top ranking page and then view source and a good >

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
> I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few > more on the individual pages.  Is there any danger to not keeping all > the meta tags in one place?  A client claims their google ranking has > fallen since this has been done. They should ideally all be in the HEAD of the d

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Terry Troxel
12:51 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: meta tag location What are the meta tags? Meta tags are 99% useless for search engine ranking. Remove them and see what happens. -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:les.cft...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:41 AM To: cf-talk

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Jacob
What are the meta tags? Meta tags are 99% useless for search engine ranking. Remove them and see what happens. -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:les.cft...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: meta tag location I usually put a few meta

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Casey Dougall
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Les Irvin wrote: > > I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few > more on the individual pages. Is there any danger to not keeping all > the meta tags in one place? A client claims their google ranking has > fallen since this has been d

meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Les Irvin
I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few more on the individual pages. Is there any danger to not keeping all the meta tags in one place? A client claims their google ranking has fallen since this has been done. Thanks, Les ~~~