Yahoo announced at the SMX East conference yesterday that they were no longer using meta keywords. In the report Yahoo stated that they had announced this earlier in the year - but apparently no one outside Yahoo got the memo. While none of the major engines now support meta keywords, I still recommend using them in all your pages. There are a lot of spiders crawling the web that still use this information to categorize your content and can result in back-links to your site.

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The key to increasing site relevancy is to have relevant content. In a recent exercise for a client, I was looking for industry terms and phrases to use for a marketing campaign. I used Google’s keyword tool that examines your site for relevant phrases and produces a list of grouped terms from which you might build a AdWords campaign. The problem was the terms that were produced didn’t match the business. This is alarming as this disconnect has serious negative ramifications for the companies organic raking. The site was turning up in organic searches for the same disconnected terms. People at arriving at the site for the wrong phrases didn’t stay, driving up bounce rate, and decreasing the sites relevancy in the search engines (yikes!).

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