Those first two URL's gave me this:

Your search - site:http://www.searchenginelabs.com/ genome - did not match any documents.

Your search - genome inurl:searchenginelabs - did not match any documents.

Spam? No, I was thinking something like this for meta keywords:



It's basically a sentence but each word stands alone as a relevant word for a "big cock" site.

And for meta description:

That's Halfdecks point, Licker4u, the searches show no results for a page that he's saying is cached for a meta keywords test.

What led you to decide to use spaces instead of commas?

I said earlier there's a lot of ongoing debate about the keywords tag. At a certain point you just gotta make your choice and take your chances.

It's a weak tag. I think it barely matters what you put there. And you can do without it on most pages.

However, If you are going to use it, I would say it should be unique for every page you use it on. That's because of the spam detection potential of the meta tags.

It's a pity he/she/they couldn't even get the structure of an HTML page right... thereby making the experiment completely useless.

DD

I've heard that both have their benefits, but their flaws are almost too hard to ignore, let alone recognize & put to good use in the environment of SE html page production



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I missed that...

One of the Google articles I read recently said they aren't necessary....I think.

Huh. It does look like the tag is malformed.

and out of order....

Dave, good eye, but I don't grasp your logic:

- META keywords tag is "malformed"
- TITLE and META element in the header is out of place.
- So Googlebot didn't index the page correctly.

Assuming Googlebot will choke on minor validation errors - That's a big leap of faith. Though I think WC3 validaton does have some merit (from what I've seen Googlebot sometimes fail to find the meat of a page if HTML is too convoluted) you're assuming that Googlebot will trip up on that META tag just because there are spaces between name, =, and "keywords." That's a big assumption.

A majority of websites have validaton errors. Some errors will trip up Googlebot, according to a googler:

http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/metadata.html

But in general, Googlers insist their bot is extremely flexible. I personally doubt that (they also said they are "pretty good" at spotting duplicate content but then wtf is this?) but I don't believe META tags out of order is enough to confuse the simplest of scripts. Their bot needs to be extremely forgiving, because otherwise it will fail to index 40% of the web:

- Matt Cutts

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-an...-google-video/

Assuming Google choked on that test page due to META positioned ahead of the TITLE attribute (its not mine, btw), nothing should come up for words in the TITLE attribute or on-page text.

Anyway, here's another example:

http://www.britney.com/, which ranks #4 for "britney spears."

It's got Flash on the home page and no actual textual content (besides keywords in the TITLE).

Here's the META keywords tag:



Kevin federline

Kevin Federline (without quotes)

Britney spears foundation

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So I guess now google can actually play a swf and retrieve the words spoken or sung in the flash?

Since the words only show up in the keywords:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...%3Abritney.com

Interesting,

but how do you explain this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...om&btnG=Search

I don't know much about how Google indexes Flash. but I think that the META keywords is reproduced in the Flash file somewhere, along with dupe bio text.

According to this page about SEOing SWF files, I can use the Adobe search engines SDK to extract indexable text from flash files.

So I downloaded the SDK, downloaded the britney.swf and this is what I pulled:

http://www.nastyxvids.com/google-flash/britney.html
(url is temporary, noindexed and nofollowed)

Partial Extract:

So it looks like we cant prove anything one way or the other - guess we will have to base our search engine work on what works for our own sites - I know the keywords meta effects my sites so Ill leave them where they are :)