Comments on: Court Declares META Keywords Dead

By: Death of meta keywords, Farewell! | Dirk+Weiss

Death of meta keywords, Farewell! | Dirk+Weiss — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:10:18 +0000

[...] Since 2002, keywords have been reported being dead, or irrelevent to search engine ranking. Marketing Pilgrim writes one of the latter articles making this declaration.Where did keywords go? Obsolete. “In [...]

By: Thomas M. Schmitz

Thomas M. Schmitz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:32:40 +0000

I feel like SEO just met Miracle on 42nd Street and fell in love.

In the holiday classic, because the US Postal Service delivers to the plaintiff letters to Santa the court recognizes the bearded gentleman from the North Pole as being the real Santa. If a branch of the US Government deems it so then it must be true.

Now a court has conferred official status concerning a topic of discussion that search engines fastidiously avoid.

Expert witnesses aside, who tipped-off the judge? The Federal Witness Protection Program?

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By: Court rules use of trademarked terms in meta tags is not trademark infringement

Court rules use of trademarked terms in meta tags is not trademark infringement — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:33:24 +0000

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By: Know Your Enemy, The SEO Malpractitioner

Know Your Enemy, The SEO Malpractitioner — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:37:21 +0000

[...] 3- The person that says that you need to focus on Meta keywords. They have been pronounced legally dead. [...]

By: Seologia

Seologia — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:12:08 +0000

“Death certificate” link doesn’t work. Apparently according to the claranet people, MP insn’t a trusted site. Shame on them!

By: Seologia

Seologia — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:09:49 +0000

In spite of what many (even official) sources say, I have experienced changes in the websites I optimize after adding META data to the most important pages. Don’t think they’re quite dead yet

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By: Jeff O'Connor

Jeff O'Connor — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:50:15 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out, Saad.

I do side work in Web development and one of my customers was recently approached by a “professional” Web development outfit that sent him a laundry list of services they provide, most of which involve using free services from Google, search engine submission, and “dedicated professional META tag programmers” or some such nonsense.

I think META tags still have their place in Web development and online marketing, but it’s a very small place; certainly not worth the price tag that so many of these fly-by-night outfits are putting on them.

By: Saad Kamal

Saad Kamal — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:12:28 +0000

Meta keywords have been dead for a long time. However many other ‘less popular’ & meta search engines may still use it..

Thanks for sharing!