For those who insist meta keywords are useful

[Arantor]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/22/google_keywords_meta_tag/

"But that's an enterprise search appliance that is completely separate from our main web search. Our web search (the well-known search at Google.com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword meta tags completely. They simply don't have any effect in our search ranking at present."

"The meta tag's keyword attribute is not the page rank panacea it once was back in the prehistoric days of internet search. It was abused far too much and lost most of its cachet. But there's no need to ignore the tag,"

So, Google ignores it, Bing does consider it - but not a lot it would seem.

[Something like that]

And if you structure your site properly, it will be simple for a search engine to pick up on your keywords.

[vbgamer45]

Yup they do not work anymore maybe for basic search engines but not the major ones which have hundreds of factors for indexing.

[TheDisturbedOne]

There's a whole post on Google Webmaster talking about it. I have them in, but don't obsess about them.

[Chasingu]

Most search engines just give you results on the domain and website name.

I don't do meta tags so that I can buy pass the scanner at school.

[NaYa]

Most search engines just give you results on the domain and website name.

I don't do meta tags so that I can buy pass the scanner at school.

i am agree with you .

but all the search engines are basically indexing with some factors ,Google also

[Arantor]

Indeed, they use a variety of information.

What I was driving at in this topic is that Google does NOT use <meta keywords="..."> information, while everyone who keeps pushing SEO suggests they do. Microsoft Bing does - but not a lot.

[TheDisturbedOne]

Yahoo does use them though, but it can't be a big factor.

[sshahnawaz]

If meta keywords are not useful, what else is useful? 

[Arantor]

Page content, page title, meta description are the big three right now.

[TheDisturbedOne]

Page content

Can't stress that enough.
You could have the most SEO in the world and have crap content, and get nowhere.

[Kill Em All]

Yahoo does use them though, but it can't be a big factor.

I'm pretty sure Yahoo goes right off of Bing now. It will show up in Yahoo, but it will give Bing results. Yahoo and Microsoft got together to take down Google.

In my personal opinion, I think Bing is better than Google. Just my opinion though.

[TheDisturbedOne]

I actually can't find my site on bing, when it's on page #3 for Yahoo search of "Disturbed"

Bing seems exactly like MSN for me.  Just as frustrating to get in results...

[sshahnawaz]

My website simply does not come anywhere. Do you people have any idea about the time the search engines take to index your website?

[TheDisturbedOne]

Index-few days
Show up in results-6 months for me in Google.

[sshahnawaz]

I read a forum member talking about how Yahoo indexes you. He said if you post in Yahoo Answers you don't need to worry. It will index you in 2 to 4 days only. I am wondering about this too much ease. What's your opinion? 

[TheDisturbedOne]

Yahoo Answers is no follow, so MHO it's a bunch of bologna.  I post in Yahoo Answers, and I don't see it helping me that much.

[sshahnawaz]

I was asking because it did not help me too. 

[flutter]

I manually submitted my site to the bigger search engines and they crawl my site everyday, updating their data.  I didn't submit to the big Chinese one and that does it every couple of days too.  I don't know the answer but submitting just takes a couple of minutes and it seems to work for me.  Though in saying that, I'm not top of any searches unless I put in the site name to search. 

I think the choice of name for your site is everything.  I have prettysims.com and people do search for pretty sims and it brings me right up in their search.

[Owdy]

Adsense use keywords to display ads based of them. Content matter too of course.