swirt
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People that have been on here a while have heard me say many times over that Google does not use the Keywords Metatag in any way in regard to ranking or even search terms.
I'm sure some accepted it as fact completely, while others probably were skeptical. Just in case, here is Matt Cutts, software engineer and anti-spam guy at Google committing the "official" answer to video.
It is also interesting that he goes on record to say that the meta - description is not used in ranking (determining rank) even though it is often used as a snippet so it definitely has conversion value.
I'm sure some accepted it as fact completely, while others probably were skeptical. Just in case, here is Matt Cutts, software engineer and anti-spam guy at Google committing the "official" answer to video.
It is also interesting that he goes on record to say that the meta - description is not used in ranking (determining rank) even though it is often used as a snippet so it definitely has conversion value.