Rank Higher And Get More Traffic To Your Website

[sanilbd]

Do not use the meta keywords tag. Many people still think of this as a quick fix for SEO. It's not, It only benefits your competition!! how so? well back then search engines used to rely on Meta Keywords to guess which keywords were relevant to a webpage , now the search engines are sophisticated enought to examine the keywords in the body of a webpage.
by placing Meta Tags on a page your giving your competitor a list of important keywords.can then use these keywords and buy PPC ads or optimize their own site for your important keywords. Why give them this sort of business intelligence? Having invested time and money on exhaustive keyword research to identify the important keyword phrases to use for your own SEO and PPC efforts, why on earth would you make a list of your high value keywords public?

[sdavis2702]

So what are you supposed to do then? I'm not being a smart ass... I'm seriously asking. Thanks!

[paul2145r]

Well, even trying to hide your keywords doesn't really help. I analyze all of my sites using the SeoQuake plugin for FireFox. It shows me all of the primary keywords used throughout the text, as well as their importance to Google. If I wanted to, I could just as easily use this as a 'recon' tool against competitors. Too bad I don't have much competition in my niches (is that the right plural of the word niche?).