Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for forums?

[froggyboy604]

I notice some forums uses tags/keywords, descriptions but I'm not sure how useful they are for forums since it might make posting on forums more complicated if there is also a description and tag textbox to fill out in the post editor.

But, I think tags might make it easier for users to look for similar topics by clicking tag links like in blogs.

 

[StripesAndFins]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

I'm not sure about tags in a thread, but I think that adding key words to the metadata in the index code helps as it helps when someone searches in a search engine.

 

[Shahrier]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

It's useful for SEO..

 

[Joshua Farrell]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

It depends. If the forum has loads of topics about one subject, then having keywords aren't needed as badly as it needs to be.

 

[Luke]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Yeah I would say keywords and description are 😀

 

[Savvy]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Good SEO but keywords won't do anything for you in Google anymore.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Meta keywords are so 2000. They won't do much, if anything, for you. Regardless, it isn't a bad idea to have them there anyway.

 

[realmartian]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Yes. It is very Important. If you have the right perfect words, Users type in the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Altavista or Other Search Engines will crawl into your forum site, website or forum sites. That's why you see it everyday when you google, yahoo or bing. Do not try to ignore this.. because, contents are not that effective if you do not have words for your Meta Keywords.. In Search Engine, Webcrawler Bots are programmed to look for those words and guide them to look at the contents. Hope, this answered your question.

It is useful in Forums, Websites or Blogs.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Yes. It is very Important.

Fiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_eleme ... _attribute

 

[realmartian]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Yes. It is very Important.

Fiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_eleme ... _attribute

Like i said. It is very important, even though you think it doesn't. For me it is very important. I use these to get effective hits, visits and monetization... Don't give the beginner a Negative comment. Give him a positive feedback, you should encourage him to USE IT!.

 

[sapper]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Keywords still form part of SEO, as does backlinks and tags, the major search engines still look on all them favourably for indexing your site.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Yes. It is very Important.

Fiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_eleme ... _attribute

Like i said. It is very important, even though you think it doesn't. For me it is very important. I use these to get effective hits, visits and monetization... Don't give the beginner a Negative comment. Give him a positive feedback, you should encourage him to USE IT!.

I'm not going to give a beginner false info.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Yes. It is very Important.

Fiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_eleme ... _attribute

Like i said. It is very important, even though you think it doesn't. For me it is very important. I use these to get effective hits, visits and monetization... Don't give the beginner a Negative comment. Give him a positive feedback, you should encourage him to USE IT!.

Meta keywords are basically useless in todays SEO world. The main thing you want for SEO is content. Don't belive me google it. Infact Yahoo has even stated that meta keywords are the last thing on their algroithim list for ranking.

Now meta description is and probably always will be useful.

The main three things you want to do for SEO is -

1. Build Backlinks

2. Make unique content

3. And last,but not least advertise,advertise,and advertise some more.

 

[froggyboy604]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Are Tags as useless or effective as Keywords when it comes to SEO?

Tags are text links which are like Categories, but less formal, and more casual. When you click on a tag link, you go to a page which list all the posts which are tagged with the specific word, or phrase the posts are tag with.

I see a lot of writers especially in the blogging, and forum category use too many tags, and categories for their posts. I'm not sure if the search engines are catching up at tags and categories are related to the posts.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Tags help, meta keywords do not, as far as we know.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Re: Are Meta keywords, tags, and description useful for foru

Are Tags as useless or effective as Keywords when it comes to SEO?

Tags are text links which are like Categories, but less formal, and more casual. When you click on a tag link, you go to a page which list all the posts which are tagged with the specific word, or phrase the posts are tag with.

I see a lot of writers especially in the blogging, and forum category use too many tags, and categories for their posts. I'm not sure if the search engines are catching up at tags and categories are related to the posts.

Tags can still be very useful,not just for SEO,but just for searching for things on your site. I highly suggest using them.