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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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Spamdexing? Keywords Tag

Question: Am I Spamdexing?

I was wondering if you could advise me as to whether this would be considered spamdexing by search engines. The list below is my keywords tag. What do you think?

“weekend intensive Italian language course, learn to speak Italian, Italian
language course, language course intensive Italian, course intensive Italian
Language, course intensive Italian, learn Italian, learn Italian language” - D.

Answer: As long as you actually use all those words in the text of the body of your page (in see-able text humans can read), then you should be okay. Be aware that most search engines ignore the keywords tag completely now, so it’s hardly worth your time to worry about it. The only way it seems to be used (from my observations) by the search engines these days is to penalize a site that uses words in the keywords meta tag that are not used in the body of the page.

Best,

Jere Matlock
Words in a Row
Writing - Marketing - SEO

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