If there’s anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it’s the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It’s practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this ...

Meta tags have been essential in communicating to Google what our webpages are about and how they should be displayed in the SERPs since the earliest days of SEO. Because even though Google has gotten ...

Meta tags are the most fundamental part of SEO and making sure that your site’s pages have a good, solid foundation of optimization. These are the tags that you add to your page’s header to describe ...

It has been a while since I covered the keyword meta tag and for some reason the topic has come up recently, so I decided to cover it again. In short, Google Search still does not use the keyword meta ...

Google is telling the world what every seasoned webmaster and search marketer should already know: The keywords meta tag has no impact whatsoever on how Google’s search engine ranks pages. None. Zilch ...

This week, we interviewed 10 candidates for an SEO position. When asked to list the “five locations on a page where employing a target keyword can have a positive effect on search engine rankings”, we ...

Last week, I reported that Yahoo dropped the meta keywords tag and stopped using it completely. Remember, I told you that I wasn't convinced when I heard that and I asked the Senior Director of Search ...