Alberta Business Marketing » eCommerce http://albertabusinessmarketing.com All the Business Marketing Buzz in Alberta Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:53:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Surprise http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CanadianMarketingBlog/~3/a1HoL5-ig1Q/surprise.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CanadianMarketingBlog/~3/a1HoL5-ig1Q/surprise.html#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000 Bryan Tenenhouse http://www.canadianmarketingblog.com/archives/2009/11/surprise.html Not many things surprise me after so many years in this business, but I have to admit, this did:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Since starting my own creative consultancy two years ago, I've written many websites for clients who think that key words actually matter. So you can imagine my surprise when I learned that Google doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in their web search ranking. Obviously this isn't as earth-shattering as learning that cigarettes are bad for you or that Balloon Boy was a hoax, but it does raise an eyebrow given that Google hasn't exactly advertised this news. Thoughts?

]]> Not many things surprise me after so many years in this business, but I have to admit, this did:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Since starting my own creative consultancy two years ago, I've written many websites for clients who think that key words actually matter. So you can imagine my surprise when I learned that Google doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in their web search ranking. Obviously this isn't as earth-shattering as learning that cigarettes are bad for you or that Balloon Boy was a hoax, but it does raise an eyebrow given that Google hasn't exactly advertised this news. Thoughts?

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