Strong as an Ox » google http://www.strongasanox.co.uk Ian Oxley - ASP.NET, PHP, JavaScript and Web Applications Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:54:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Meta Keywords Tag Does Nothing for your Site’s Google Rank http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/2009/12/18/a-meta-keywords-tag-does-nothing-for-your-sites-google-rank/ http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/2009/12/18/a-meta-keywords-tag-does-nothing-for-your-sites-google-rank/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:04:37 +0000 Ian http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/?p=260 Are you fed up with so called SEO experts extolling the importance of meta “keywords” tags on a site’s Google rank? Me too. I therefore created doesgoogleusethekeywordsmetatag.com.

So the next time anyone moans about their site’s lack of a keywords meta tag, you know where to send them :-)

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Another lesson we learned is that it is important to delay adding new features until it is clear how the new features will be used. For example, we initially planned to support general-purpose transactions in our API. Because we did not have an immediate use for them, however,
we did not implement them.

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