keywords on your website

strugglingam · 14-Dec-2004, 04:22 AM #1

I have a question that maybe you savvy webmasters can answer for me. I've been told that it helps your ranking with search engines if you actually list keywords at the top of your website in a color that makes them practically invisible to the reader but are there for the engines to pick up.

And then I've heard that doing just this could cause you to be rejected, because you are key word loading to trick the search engines.

Does anybody know which is right, and whether it's a good idea or not?

etaf · 14-Dec-2004, 04:56 AM #2

I have read both too. I think it depends on the search engine.
although I dont use a lot of search engines to submit to.
I tend to use the add url to some key engines google etc

AvvY · 14-Dec-2004, 05:35 AM #3

im curious about this. my site is listed on google as i did the add url thing, but the only keyword to find it is using my net name "bigavvystyle". how do i go about adding keywords to my site? if i added these invisible words would this help? cheers

etaf · 14-Dec-2004, 05:39 AM #4

meta names

metatags
http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/metatags.detail.html
http://eonsinteractive.com/content.a...=150&content=1

search engine
http://www.globalpromoter.com/seo-to...saturation.cfm

http://www.zoomgroup.co.uk/search-en...gines-work.htm
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmast...le.php/2168031

AvvY · 14-Dec-2004, 06:17 AM #5

so i need to input something like this:
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="oranges, lemons, limes">
into the <head> of the html code of the index page?

i looked through ur links but find the whole Meta tag thing a little confusing. thanx

etaf · 14-Dec-2004, 06:32 AM #6

Quote:

i looked through ur links but find the whole Meta tag thing a little confusing. than

does this help
http://www.northernwebs.com/set/design_notes_0.html

I'm sure some gurus will answer later - i'm just a novice / amateur at this stuff - although did manage to get a few websites to number 4 on a few search engines (websites nolonger used though)

AvvY · 14-Dec-2004, 06:57 AM #7

thanx etaf, that link made it all much easier to follow. i read all the info and applied it to my site, i hope it solves some the issues i had and did a few things as a bonus. thanx once again

etaf · 14-Dec-2004, 07:08 AM #8

mo problem - but remember in can take MONTHS to get a listing on a website form spiders/crawlers etc...
thats why I pick a few sites (mainly that the customer uses) such as google, lycos, etc etc and then add url to those.

AvvY · 14-Dec-2004, 07:37 AM #9

yep, i added my site to google again, ill try a few others

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