how many meta keywords should I site have?

not less than 1000. google likes ambition.

In my opinion the best would be strictly kws for which you're optimizing your page...say 5-10 the most.... Although they are not important at all for SERPs and shit anymore...
I'd keep eyes on meta description more than keywords ;)

hmm i wasnt intending to use 1000 or close to beneath it , that sounds stupid. 5-10 sounds tough, how about 30?. yeh ill work on my description

8-10 more will be considered spam

yeah... and i was serious.

how many you should use is widely disputed and debated. 200 characters is a standard. it should only be those words which you are targeting with the page... you shouldn't need 100 words... only those few keyword phrases you are targeting with the page... don't use commas to seperate the words. results is all about relevancy, not tricking search engines.

ohhh i thought u meant 1000 words --- or do you?


edit - explain what you mean by not adding comma's
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Here is some real help. Make the tour pages short. Anything that is in a members area will not be indexed. So a tour page that does not scroll is usually best. ! to 2 key words per page. and have all of the pages point to the index page.

Hope that helps.

wow i think i get what you mean there. would that really work?

between 5 and 7

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again... i was being sarcastic about 1000 words. i assumed that anyone with the knowledge to make a site would know that ;)

remember that this is like asking "how do i lose fat" - you ask 1000 people, you will get 900 different answers... most of the directly conflicting with each other. there are many factors (both positive and negative) which detemine how a page ranks all with different weights and different weights in different search engines.

my understanding is that if you seperate them with commas, they will be looked at as single words/phrases by most search engines. if you do not seperate the keywords with commas, they can be looked at in their different possible combinations - so "sexy, teen, blowjob" would be looked at as 3 words. without, it could be looked at as "sexy" "teen" "blowjob" "sexy teen" "sexy teen blowjob".

its also important how you use keywords in the document, where, how often etc. its important how the site is linked internally, externally, how many incomming links you have, the quality of those links, the anchor text/alt tags of those links, the anchor text, alt tags of images/links on your own site.

its about doing EVERYTHING well, not 1-2 things. for the most part, all the little SEO factors are interrelated. doing one thing bad, can negate a lot of good and visa versa....


i could be wrong too.

ahh thanks pleasure pays I see what your getting at there - I hope
yeh I have done most of my img alt text, just need to pop up some more external links and alt text them.

Should the keywords be different per page, take a look at http://www.foxyreviews.co.uk Per different model Should I use different keywords or stick with the same for all my pages. Likewise the descirption of the page

As I saw quite a big site have the same page description and keywords for all its pages and found this just a tad strange.

i am not really an expert on SEO. i mean anyone can recite from a list of 30 things you should do that most of the SEO community can agree is important. so please take it all with a grain of salt.

you can optimize different pages for different primary and secondary keyword phrases as long as it is all directly relevant to the sites general content. the site you are referring to probably didn't care because the descriptions don't carry much weight with search engines. i believe a few big search engines (yahoo is one i think) are thought to ignore them completely as a factor for ranking a page.

thanks pleasurepays

my experience says that it's best using 1-2 keywords (or phrases, let's say: meta=nasty teens, nastyteens). usually one keyword per page is the best... and tons of pages...

Your meta keywords won't make a difference unless you have a Google Priority ID.

depends on the page, but most realistic response yet

Interesting thread, thanks for sharing the info.