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Amar from Earth -

I put in a ton of hyperlinked menu pages and meta tagged each of them to death. Then i checked my url site name in the google we came up third!

I am not sure how to monetise this unless there is some sort of super affiliate tier of payning off.

But that is the way to do it!

Comment #1 jess from The mighty earth -

Amar,

I am surprised to hear this. Google apparently don't pay any attention to metatags anymore so I don't see how that could have influenced your rankings. Also, an overusage of links can get your site banned by Google so be careful.

I suspect it was just luck or perhaps you have some good content keywords in there that helped push you up the rankings. I don't believe it's the metatags though.

Comment #2 Nancy from Los Angeles -

Here we have some conflicting ideas:

1) Google ignores meta tags

2) if you use too many Google might ban you.

Can't have it both ways.

Additionally, we know google doesn't ignore meta tags because they check the various robot tags.

What we should conclude is that Google doesn't use all the meta tags as they are documented. Though you might find use of the description tag gets your description and not bits from your site shown in their search results.

It might also be reasonable to conclude that they are smart enough to determine if your keyword tags are BS or related to the topic of your site.

The problem I find with more meta tags on website is the title, description and keywords seem to be repeated 100% the same on all pages within the page.

People take those tags to be a SITE description, yet they are used on every page and should be a PAGE description.

Comment #3 Paul Roupinian from Redondo beach -

If an overusage of links can get your site banned by Google then what are all the links for on this site?

I think as long as the meta tags are relate to all my content what is the problem?

I never said I was using bogus links or tags.

The key is to not try to cut corners and actualy provide the content and not machine generated gibberish.

That's the kiss of death.

Comment #4 jess from The mighty earth -

Nancy,

I think you misread the message.

1) Google ignores metatags

2) If you use too many bogus links you can get banned

1 and 2 have nothing to do with each other so what do you mean you can't have it both ways? Links have absolutely nothing to do with metatags.

Now, I'm not saying that they just blatantly ignore them although I have heard that this is in fact the case. I'm saying that they either ignore them or place very little emphasis to their usage.

As far as links on this site are concerned, they are perfectly valid and pertinent links. Nothing wrong with that and in fact it's a good thing. I'm talking about those cases where people have lots and lots of links at the bottom of their page to try and make it seem like they are linking to sites/pages that have to do with specific keywords.

Comment #5 Nancy from Los Angeles -

I guarantee you Google does not IGNORE meta tags. They may (appear) to ignore the keyword tag.

They definiately use the description tag and the robots tag.

I believe use the description tag can be extremely dangerous (even though you are not punished per se by it).

You make a site with 1, 000 excellent articles on various topics. You make a meta description tag you use site wide that says "1000 great articles". Now google indexes all 1000 of your articles and when someone searches rather than seeing a snippet from your articles all they see is "1000 great articles". Not an enticement for someone to click.

Of course that is not really the correct use of the description tag because you put a site description on each individual page. But... look at the use of meta tags they are often site descriptions/keywords used identically on each individual page.

Comment #6 Paul Roupinian from Redondo beach -

You can tell you are doing the job right when the bots come in and do the scrubbing. Review your Awstats. You should be getting about 8-10 types of bots going over the place. of course your content has to be linked to the metatag description! Why do people keep trying to figure out how to get around this and then act surprised and disappointed they can't game the system.

Comment #7 DevilsCharm from US -

You said your URL site name came up third, that's because the site name is your domain and the domain has a lot of power in Google. Meta tags have nothing to do with it.

Comment #8 Ben Scudder from Kansas -

Devilscharm what domain name is this? Does that mean if you buy whatever domain name then you can get the top result no matter what? I though the Search Engines had to use bots and index the repetition of that name in the keyword to text by meta tag markers?

Comment #9 JKander from Land -

Ben, get it out of your head that meta tags affect rankings. Having a domain that is the keyword doesn't mean you will automatically be at the top, it just helps a lot.

Comment #10 Ben Scudder from Kansas -

How can you say that meta tags don't affect rankings? Meta tags are used when anyone executes a search for certain keywords and the conventional wisdom says that these are dynamics that the searche engines use to sort results. Supposedly the keywords are searched and the pages on a site are then indexed to reflect the amount of times those keywords are repeated and used in actual non-spam ways inside the site. Those index values and variables then drive the result, in a matrix wth traffic and other unknowable variable.

What do YOU use meta tags for?

Comment #11 Kara from Idaho -

Now I'm even more confused!! ha ha

Meta tags DON'T affect rankings?

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