WordPress + SEO + Google Meta Keywords

Thanks for all your info!!

Tamales are quite yummy!

Iwas thinking the same thing wheb i saw that elsewhere. Google is big and all, but its not the whole pie :)

Thank you Lawrence for yoiyr insight! I learned alot from your SEO workshop in the OC. Thanks.

Henry

So I totally think the video would be helpful to people so here is the link… http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/30/matt-cutts-google-sf09/

Good info, Lawrence. We’ve felt for five years that if any site like Google or Bing used meta keywords, they would suck because they are so easily gamed. And actually, Matt Cutts, told us long ago that Google had a dim view of them.

Since Bing is returning nice results, my strong suspicion is they don’t use them either.

Just my $.02.

Chris

Great article describing wordpress. I don’t see any other platforms out there that can out perform it. And talk about support. :) there are new updates all the time especially on the seo module. I see many people out there with blogs from other sources that can’t cover all the angles of seo. I’m seeing really great search results on mine.
Thanks,
John

WordPress definitely rocks! WordPress + Lawrence’s SEO workshop = immediate results. :)

Thanks for sharing! Utilizing WordPress has greatly helped my SEO.

Chris – You bring up a very good point! And you are very likely to be right ;)

Thanks for your valuable insight (esp from Matt himself). I’m happy to see that SmugMug is so on top if things! I, myself, am anxious to see what direction Bing will bring on this topic.

For those reading this – SmugMug is a phenomenal company!

I agree! My first reaction when I saw hard evidence that Google doesn’t use meta keywords for search was just like your’s — sure, Google may not, but what about Yahoo, Bing, and other engines? You make an excellent point here Lawrence and anybody who says that meta keywords are a waste of time are kidding themselves. Plus, Google confirmed that they CURRENTLY don’t use meta keywords, but that could always change in the future. Why not cover all your bases???

Google and all of the other major search engines (I’m tempted to say “all” but some tiny search engine that half a person uses somewhere would disprove the statement) do not, and for all intents and purposes, never have used meta keywords (nor description, for that matter). This certainly includes Yahoo, Bing, Ask, etc.

Why?

Because they’re easily “gameable”. Since humans don’t see them, people can load them up with all kinds of bogus stuff – and did, back in the early part of the decade. Modern search engines only utilize and index the content that humans can see, because you can’t easily game that stuff.

I’ve been telling people this for more than 5 years till I was blue in the face. Mostly people would tell me I’m a liar, that Google *totally* uses meta keywords. Nope, and they haven’t for an awfully long time, if ever. Neither do any of the other bigs.

wow, thanks for the confirmation, i was always worried about this, cool and all my sites are on the wordpress platform. you rock!

Aloha B

More fabulous insight into the SEO brain of Lawrence. Thanks!

Thanks for the post, I love this information!