First and foremost, keywords are a cornerstone of SEO. They are categorically necessary and not once did I intend for my previous post to come off at all as though I don't understand the critical ...

If abused, the meta keyword tag can act as an indicator that the page is of low quality, which in turn can trigger algorithmic penalties. In other words, the meta keywords that were stuffed full to ...

If there’s anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it’s the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It’s practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this ...

Meta tags are the most fundamental part of SEO and making sure that your site’s pages have a good, solid foundation of optimization. These are the tags that you add to your page’s header to describe ...

Meta tags have been essential in communicating to Google what our webpages are about and how they should be displayed in the SERPs since the earliest days of SEO. Because even though Google has gotten ...

The one constant with SEO (search engine optimization) is change. Search engines have been around since the 90s and have since died a thousand deaths. I recently read a post about the many deaths of ...

I was happy. I was joyful. I thought the meta keywords tag had finally died last year. But Bing recently said that it does use it. After some back-and-forth, I can confirm further that it does, but as ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Within the constantly shifting guidelines for what does and doesn’t boost a website’s SEO, meta tags typically don’t garner much ...

It has been a while since I covered the keyword meta tag and for some reason the topic has come up recently, so I decided to cover it again. In short, Google Search still does not use the keyword meta ...

An HTML tag that identifies the contents of a Web page for the search engines. Meta tags are hidden on the page, but they, as well as all the HTML code on a page, can be viewed by selecting ...

Ben Pfeiffer is the President and CEO of Rank Smart Search Marketing, an organic search engine optimization and marketing firm. He is an industry veteran, writer, and speaker with over 12 years ...

The Google cache is a version of your Web page that Google copies and stores on its servers. It is these cached versions that you search whenever you do a Web search. This is necessary to returning ...