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Meta Keywords with Space in Between Commas?

by Marhelper
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When you are putting in your meta keywords does it matter if you have a space in between commas?

Example: sample,sample or sample, sample
#commas #keywords #meta #space
  • Profile picture of the author Thomas
    Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

    When you are putting in your meta keywords does it matter if you have a space in between commas?

    Example: sample,sample or sample, sample
    Many will say the meta keywords don't matter full stop but, in answer to your question, AFAIK, the comma (not the space) is the seperator between the keywords/phrases. In other words, put in a space, or don't - as long as you have the comma, it won't matter (although you should, or course, put a space between the words in a keyphrase. (Hope that makes sense!)

    If it were me, I'd put in the space, though only because I'm a pedantic fool, who like things to "look nice"

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    Tommy.
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    • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
      Many will say the meta keywords don't matter
      ...and I'm one of those ppl.
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      • Profile picture of the author nouseforaname
        Code:
        <meta name="keywords" content="Digg, pictures, breaking news, entertainment, politics, technology, headline news, celebrity news, offbeat, world business, sports, funny videos" />
        This might give you a bigger picture, I reverse engineer on Digg site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
      Originally Posted by Thomas View Post

      Many will say the meta keywords don't matter full stop but, in answer to your question, AFAIK, the comma (not the space) is the seperator between the keywords/phrases. In other words, put in a space, or don't - as long as you have the comma, it won't matter (although you should, or course, put a space between the words in a keyphrase. (Hope that makes sense!)

      If it were me, I'd put in the space, though only because I'm a pedantic fool, who like things to "look nice"

      Regards,
      Tommy.
      Anyone that knows how to rightly use the word "pedantic" is alright with me. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author edgray
    it doesn't make a difference either way, the robots will strip any unwanted spaces...

    worth bearing in mind though that Google 100% DOES NOT read META Keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author clicktechs
    how about hypens, I use this some because of yahoo's search features, will that hurt your searches and likely only help with people using a hypen search?
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    • Profile picture of the author Demo3k
      Originally Posted by clicktechs View Post

      how about hypens, I use this some because of yahoo's search features, will that hurt your searches and likely only help with people using a hypen search?
      :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Meta keywords are ignored by Google. Thats all you need to know.
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    • Profile picture of the author image2all
      Originally Posted by jazbo View Post

      Meta keywords are ignored by Google. Thats all you need to know.
      Is it real that Meta keyword ignored by Google? I never hear it before. If it real then Should we not use meta keyword for Google? Can you clear me about the matter please?
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by image2all View Post

        Is it real that Meta keyword ignored by Google? I never hear it before. If it real then Should we not use meta keyword for Google? Can you clear me about the matter please?
        Might have something to do with where you live. You live
        in a region of the world rife with spammers, scammers,
        and others who make life hard on the rest of us.

        Just the reason why google no longer gives a rip about
        that meta, and hasn't for as long as I can remember.

        Tell your friends.

        Google does read it, however. Old thread.

        But hey, maybe someone will find it useful.

        I should also say a comma or space does not matter.
        A comma means nothing, but it makes people feel
        good.

        Squidoo uses it to the max, but not for google. They must
        have some internal algo. They insist you use it, and fill
        it up. They insist you have at least 5 or you don't get
        100%

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  • Profile picture of the author TomBond
    Other search engines use them so so why not optimise them? It's not as if it takes any time at all
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    • Profile picture of the author MrDay
      Originally Posted by distinctly_digital View Post

      Other search engines use them so so why not optimise them? It's not as if it takes any time at all
      You made a good point. I know they don't matter for Google but for the other search engines it may still make a difference.
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    • Profile picture of the author BrianMcLeod
      Originally Posted by distinctly_digital View Post

      Other search engines use them so so why not optimise them? It's not as if it takes any time at all
      While I understand the argument for not revealing your "money keywords" in your metatags - ignoring meta keywords seems somewhat like not putting house numbers on your home because the mailman ignores it.

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  • Profile picture of the author downha
    Thank you i have been debating this for a while and finally decided to search for an answer this topis was 1st

    thank god i dont have to go through all my tags and leave space
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  • Profile picture of the author Mosa
    I always put the space after the comma. I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not, but all I know is what i'm doing is working.
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  • Profile picture of the author downha
    wasn't sure about it and asked friends and they said don't add space which i didn't , i may change it when i have time. thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Having space or not having these doesn't matter as most of the HTML parsers trim off the extra spaces automatically to split out each word between commas. So use as you are comfortable with.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I don't really care about the meta-keyword tag, when I do image alt text I don't use a blank space after the comma & rank thumbnail images in Google organic SERPs. Just saying, the image alt-text is enough info. to tell me Google doesn't care about the blank space after the comma.

    Example:
    <img src="/images/keyword.jpg" alt="keyword here,keyword here,keyword here" width="400" height="400" />
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  • Profile picture of the author adam337
    I use space after comma and its going well.
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