Different meta tags

[ashly]

I ran across a forum post that was very interesting a guy did a test with 3 words that had never been searched in google. We will call them 1 2 and 3 1 he put in the title 2 he put in the description and 3 he put in the actual TEXT of the webpage. The only one that showed up was the one page where he put the word in the text. It was genius and proved that text content is all that matters to google

[kwvarga]

not really.. put the word on all 3 pages and see which one shows up.

[ashly]

It really proved it I wish i could find the posting where I seen it but the way he did it couldnt be denied it was 3 different words that had never been used or searched for in google and the only WORD not PAGE im sorry that showed up when searching for was the one in the text. I might not be explaining it correct but the truth is GOOGLE doesnt care about META TAGS

[kwvarga]

argh.. they do, have a site with same content in all 3.. have 1 with word in title, meta, and body and have another with title, and body, another with meta and body, and another with just body.. title,meta,body will win i believe not sure.. i know title+body will be > body though

[ashly]

On Jan 29th I added some words to various sections of a page to see how they would rank in Google. Googlebot obliginly visted the next day and two days later the updated page was in the Google cache, where it remains today.

I took a page with a low PR, verified in advance that none of the 4 words could be found in Google, and then added:

jambomergatroid789 - to the bottom of the visible page

oxydiffrecoustt246 - to the page title

paradorfrumicous123 - to the Meta description tag

falfarrextantyser456 - to the meta keywords tag.


If you search for any of these Unique words you will find that only the word added to the page content and the word added to the page title are found in a Google Search.

On the face of it this would seem to indicate that Googles algo pays very little attention to either the meta Description or the Meta Keywords tag. but lets wait for the full Google update to be sure.

[TanyaMartin]

Interesting though, it does show up for keyword in Yahoo.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=fal...=20&fl=0&x=wrt

[ashly]

Very Interesting