Google Confirms Position on META Data

December 4th, 2007 by Fred

We thought this one was already a closed case, but apparently the question of META tags still gets asked to Google engineers frequently. So today on the Google Webmaster blog, there’s a nice article on what META tags Google uses and which they do not. The META keywords is quite notably omitted, with love going to the often neglected META description tag and the SEO’s favorite tool, the Title tag.

Again, no thunder bolts of lightning here, but nice to hear that Google’s hands know what the others are doing. And another nail in the coffin for META keywords, MSN notwithstanding…

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2 Responses to “Google Confirms Position on META Data”

Marie Santos Says:
January 31st, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Can you please provide more details on this?
Fred Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Marie,

Thanks for the comment, but not sure what you need. We do discuss SEO best practices in more detail in our webinars — http://www.hallme.com/webinars

Best,
Fred

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Google Confirms Position on META Data