separated by commas, how?

dvdbunny · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:04

this is probably a real dumb question, but when they say enter a few words separated by commas, do they mean this:

asaas,asasa,asasa

or

asasa, asasas, asasasa,

lord filbuster · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:07

With spaces.

Greenlizard0 · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:07

Depends on the situation. It usually means the latter. Doesn't it give you an example?

daveydave · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:10

lord filbuster said:
With spaces.

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dvdbunny · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:13

so it's like this, aaa, aaa, aaa, ?

It's basically for keywords to add my site to google

fini · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:21

dvdbunny said:
It's basically for keywords to add my site to google

lolwut?

(if you mean metatags you're wasting your time)

Redrum · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:29

I have seen meta keywords written with spaces after the commas and without. I don't think it matters as I am sure the search engines are perfectly capable of stripping the spaces out. The only thing I would change from your examples is you shouldn't have a trailing comma (i.e. no comma after the last one in the list).

I believe the reason fini is suggesting that its a waste of time is that most search engine optimisation sources now say that Google doesn't look at keywords. This means it might not be worth spending hours adding them to every page of a big site, but its not going to do any harm if you do add them and even if Google doesn't read them, other search engines might.

Inquisitor · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:30

dvdbunny said:
so it's like this, aaa, aaa, aaa, ?

It's basically for keywords to add my site to google

Doesn't matter, then.

fini · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:32

Redrum said:
even if Google doesn't read them, other search engines might.

None of the major search engines look at them - they've been pretending they don't exist since at least 2002.

EDIT: dvdbunny when can I buy you're book? Not sure what happened to that thread..

Redrum · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:39

fini said:
None of the major search engines look at them - they've been pretending they don't exist since at least 2002.

Fair enough, I'll bow to your superior knowledge as SEO is not a strong point of mine, but what's interesting to note is I just had a look at a few of the biggest sites on the net I could think of and they all still have meta keywords.

iviv · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:51

Well, they won't loose anything by keeping them there, so they just leave 'em, I guess.

fini · 15 Sep 2008 at 01:54

I think that's more to do with their CMS' making adding keywords site-wide based on page content about as easy as ticking a box and thus - hey why not - rather than for any seo reason.

By the way if you're thinking of learning a bit about seo think about reading the seomoz blog - its one of the best.

gillywibble · 15 Sep 2008 at 14:13

lord filbuster said:
With spaces.

david.n.c said:
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No, just one.

Tefal · 18 Sep 2008 at 22:52

So is he putting pretty much the contents of the Webster's dictionary into his sites keywords to promote is free crap?

Greenlizard0 · 18 Sep 2008 at 22:53

What the hell man, why did you resurrect this thread?