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Declaring The Death of Metatags

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the few-bad-apples-spoiled-the-barrel dept.

theduck writes "Andrew Goodman of Traffick.com pleaded for someone to announce the end of metatags (at least with respect to trying to skeeve good search engine ranking). and Danny Sullivan, Editor of The SearchEngineReport obliged. Personally, I've resisted using them for years, but convincing clients that they're not worth the effort has always been difficult. Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?"

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  1. Meta tags aren't so useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, you don't exactly get better rankings (as the article pointed out).

    sex dick pussy vagina cum cumbath ass fuck britney spears orgasm ...

    1. Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      sex dick pussy vagina cum cumbath ass fuck britney spears orgasm ...

      Word stuffing sometimes seems to backfire. Once I actually went to explicity search for "pussy", but got some stupid discount cat pet food spam-site instead. The search engine probably had to ignore most of them because there were too many (too many words, not pussies).

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    2. Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Funny
      sex dick pussy vagina cum cumbath ass fuck britney spears orgasm ...
      Such language! Where I come from we don't use words like "Britney Spears" in polite company, young man.
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    3. Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Bishop923 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Once I actually went to explicity search for "pussy"

      Bars tend to be better than search engines for that sort of thing.

  2. Suggested meta tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    <meta name="will_be_shutdown_by_the_riaa" value="">
    <meta name="contains_drm_technology" value="">
    <meta name="capable_of_withstanding_slashdot_effect" value="">
    <meta name="viewable_with_browser_other_than_IE" value="">
    <meta name="uses_extremely_irritating_blink_tag" value="">
    <meta name="requires_irritating_to_install_plugin" value="">

  3. Re:sure, i do. by freeweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Something tells me you don't need too powerful of search tools when you're looking for a site called "GodFuckingDammit.com".

    Most folk looking for that probably also try "go to hell" in google (try it, it's fun, but don't forget to include the quotes).

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  4. At the bottom of the page.. sigh.. by XaXXon · · Score: 4, Funny


    Special Offer: Are you targeting the right keywords?
    How do you know if people are searching on your keywords? Use WordTracker, and you'll get inside information on what people are really searching for. With this top secret information, you can optimize your site the right way the first time and see immediate results!

    This was the ad at the bottom of the page.. Ironic, no? Maybe even a little hypocritical? Sigh..

  5. The Onion does. by nule.org · · Score: 4, Funny
    Everyone's favorite news site (after /. of course), The Onion still uses the meta keyword tag. Of course, I don't know that a person searching for "God", "Christ" and "monkey" would exactly be expecting to land there.

    But then I don't know where exactly the would be expecting to land...

  6. /. bombing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    <meta name="moderation totals" content="+5, +5, +5, +5, +5, +5">

    pay no mind to this post inexplicably up here at the top of the page

  7. hmm by crm114 · · Score: 5, Funny

    interestingly, the article html contains meta name="keywords" content="metatags are evil, metatags must die, death to the meta tags"

  8. Re:Googlebombing works better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, I bet anybody searching for quizilla went straight to your site!