SEO Question -- how many keywords should I have in my meta-data?

Three to Five "key" keywords. Followed by two to three branding names, such as your company, company inc., etc.Altogether not more than six to eight.

No more than 5 keywords/keyword phrases. More than this and you may be considered "stuffing", whick will result in SERP penalties or being banned.

15-20 - anything else you could be considered at stuffer!

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Thanks,

Billy

I'd stick to around 3 or 4 keywords - and for each page, use different keywords. I'd use the same keywords as part of your title as well.

Then use these keywords when you link to that page.

Steve
http://www.realearners.com

less than 300 characters.

You can go to this website to create free metatags.

http://www.sean.co.uk/a/webdesign/meta_tag_generator.shtm

Regards,
Edmund Ng
http://www.internet-empire.com

You should include the primary keyword/phrase of the web page in the Title tag.

You should also include the primary keyword/phrase of your web page in the description tag.

And finally, you should include 5 to 10 keywords or keyword phrases that are found on the web page in your keyword meta tag.

Contrary to the opinion stated above, meta tags DO matter...Google uses the Title and Description in 95% of their search engine results on anything you search for.

Yahoo! and MSN do the same AND they weight your keyword meta tags more than Google does.

The others are correct in reminding you not to stuff keywords in every tag possible. It is a spammy practice. I typically try to tell people to simply be conservative instead of borderline. The search engines appreciate conservative design and when they regularly change their search algo, it could make a "borderline" site go into the "SPAM" category very fast...and that would not be a pleasant experience!

Good luck!

-James
Internet Marketing Professional
http://www.loyaltylm.com

If you really want a good answer this is how you'd do it.

at first select up to 10, no more, then narrow them down by best results 3 or 4 days later, now you should have a few say 3-5 Do not any more than that. the 3 or 4 keywords need to be....
buy keywords = specific product keywords like the exact name of a product Model Number brand ect
IE S2 SportsВ® Walkman MP3 PlayerspacerNW-S205F

Narrowed down Keywords are similar to
sony walkman mp3 player

intry keywords are topic keywords
MP3 Player

the keywords are treated like such Intry Keyword is when a browser wants something but doesnt know the name of it

Narrowed down keywords are when the customer knows the brand but not the model

Buy Keywords are when the cusomer knows exactly what they want

NOTE: Each keyword you have in your meta tag must show up somewhere in the body of the html or you will be penalized

It is better to have 3 -5 specific keyword phrases rather than 15 general kw's in general
S2 Sports Walkman MP3 PlayerspacerNW-S205F this can be 1 Keyword or Keyword phrase like so
meta content="S2 Sports Walkman MP3 PlayerspacerNW-S205F, Sony, mp3 player,

DonвЂ™t stuff the metatags with keywords.
META keywords will not help your search engine ranking in any way. Nonetheless META keywords and META descriptions are still important to use. The keywords used in the keyword META tag must also appear on the web page. You must create a unique META description for every web page, describing the content in one or two sentences. The META description is often used in the search engine result pages under the website link and can greatly increase the click through rate if itвЂ™s worded correctly.

Tags should be different fro each page and only use the 1-3 phrases found on that page.

<TITLE>use your 3 keyword phrases.no more then 15 words. avoid stop words like 'the', and'</TITLE>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="use your 3 keyword phrases. use comma after each phrase, no space, note, not really needed any more ">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="be sure to use the 3 keyword phrases. no more then 24 words or less ">

Other tags

<META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="Index,ALL">
<META NAME="googlebot" CONTENT="index,follow">
<META NAME="Rating" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="Language" CONTENT="en">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="sitemap-name.xml" />

Prominence is best described as how close to the beginning of a specific area in which the keyword appears. A keyword or keyword phrase that appears closer to the top of the page or area may often be considered mildly more relevant.

Keyword placement is better defined as the distance between two keywords or key phrases. You should always keep in mind the importance of keyword and key phrase proximity while carefully writing the content for your website. One powerful technique is to place useful and meaningful text hyperlinks to the internal or external pages of the website. It is my experience that most of these text hyperlinks boost your search engine rankings by a very large factor.

On that very subject, utilization of navigational links across the website will have a powerful impact in gaining priority search engine positioning. Try to incorporate keyword text as part of the link text itself. Having text hyperlinks in each web page adds to the overall link popularity of your website.

Always remember that for maximum search engine optimization and positioning, the actual content of your whole website and the way it was put together will actually determine your search engine positioning and the ranking you will finally achieve. Additionally, various important factors like the formatting of your text, keyword density, keyword proximity, keyword frequency, keyword positioning and finally link popularity are all important and will usually determine if in fact you will be placed above or below your most important competitors.

And never, never keyword stuff. Write correctly, but use your keywords in proper ratio so that it also reads well and makes sense.

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