element should be in the HEAD section of an HTML document.
HTML specs and search engine criteria are two different babies! Yes,
the META tag is recommended in HTML; but people spam the search
engines with the META tag, so some have come to disregard it
altogether; while the usual "rule" one sees out there is not to
repeat any keyword more than 7 times in the META tag, else it'll be
ignored altogether.
This then is OK:
"sundials, horizontal sundials, vertical sundials, equatorial
sundials, polar sundials, analemmatic sundials, reflected ceiling
sundials"
and this is not:
"sundials, horizontal sundials, vertical sundials, equatorial
sundials, polar sundials, analemmatic sundials, reflected ceiling
sundials, portable sundials, hemispherical sundials, sundials in
Antiquity"
If Google has become the preëminent search engine, one of the reasons
is that it ranks pages quite cleverly, based in part on how many
other pages link to a given page, as an index to its value: in effect
Google has coöpted all the writers of websites! This favors sites
with true content; after a while, the better sites gravitate to the
top of the rankings, regardless of keywords by the way: thus
rendering some of these problems moot.
The lag time (between the time a page is put online or modified, and
the time the page or its modification is indexed by the search
engines) varies with the search engine, the prominence of the server,
the directory depth, and for some engines the varying frequency at
which the page is rechecked (which in turn is based on the engine's
ranking of it). For many sites, it is around 6 months.
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Bill Thayer
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