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This article would have sucked in 1997...in 2007, it’s downright embarassing.

"Choosing the right keywords for the Meta tags needs expert advice. One needs to be extremely careful while selecting the keywords for the Meta tags as they act as major factors in determining how a visitor will locate your website in the search engines."
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from searchcommander 1608 Days ago #
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oh my gosh, at first i thought, "no way", but now. I see - These guys are REALLY geniuses! OK, I noticed it also says this -  "...need to lay great emphasis on stuffing appropriate keywords..." and use of the word "stuffing" made me think it was a joke.Now look at the bottom of the article - There’s an author bio linking to here - http://www.aninfosolutions.com/seo.php and it’s an SEO firm in New Delhi, where their headline is "Imparting Solutions Through Creativity ".So, apparently, this New Delhi SEM firm is taking it to the bleeding edge of creativity by sharing absolutely riduiculous outdated advice as linkbait! Very clever...Wait until WebMD thinks of this! Imagine the linkbait potential there, by giving fatal medical advice?

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from Sebastian 1608 Days ago #
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Webmasters need to lay great emphasis on stuffing appropriate keywords in the header. If the keywords are absent from the header of your html code, the search engines will be unable to find your website/webpage.Oh well, years of wondering why the fuck I can’t rank #1 for [buy cheap viagra] ... nobody told me that I must add ",cialis" to the keywords meta tag :(

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from handsomerob 1608 Days ago #
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This is a republished article taken from any number of article submission siteshttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22Meta+Tags+are+HTML+tags+which+provide+information+to+the+search+engines,+describing+the+content+of+the+webpages+a+user+is+likely+to+view%22&hl=en&safe=off&filter=0

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from cre8pc 1608 Days ago #
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This is one of those spit your drink all over your monitor articles.  Pure comedy.  Love their disclaimer..."Important: The material on Best Syndication is for informational purposes only and is not meant to be advice. You should always seek professional advice before making financial or medical decisions."

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from sza 1608 Days ago #
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I can’t wait for the "desphinn" feature...

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from deCabbit 1607 Days ago #
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But it is so important - and that’s why you should hire me where for the discount rate of $100,000 annually I will do your super secret keyword research and stuffing.No really - let a professional do it.  We make no guarantees tho... :D  Payment upfront.  In cash - unmarked, used $20 please.

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from billse 1607 Days ago #
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Ack.  These are those ’articles’ that clients and employers see that do WAY more harm than good.  Spreading the FUD.

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from Halfdeck 1607 Days ago #
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"So, apparently, this New Delhi SEM firm is taking it to the bleeding edge of creativity by sharing absolutely riduiculous outdated advice as linkbait!"Searchcommander, the article isn’t for link bait; its for gaming the engines with embedded anchor text like [Search Engine Optimization] [SEO] and [website design]. In other words, a cheap man’s version of contextual TLAs.With this particular article, they built <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Meta+tags+are+of+great+significance+as+they+boost+the+overall+performance+of+the+webpage.%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=EP2&filter=0">99 (crap) backlinks.</a>That said, these guys don’t realize not only Googlebot visits these pages, people also do. If you’re going to build links this way, at least use articles that increase company mindshare instead of paying someone to write crap articles for $1.99/hour. Alot of clients are won in the SEO industry via referrals from other SEOs, not Google traffic from ranking high for [seo]. You’re not going to gain industry respect this way.

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1607 Days ago #
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@HalfDeck:People looking for an SEO firm almost by definition do not know much about SEO. Start using words like "meta keywords" and describing how carefully you must select them scares and confuses people. They assume if the author knows such words as "meta" he must be good.Sad, but true.For most service-based industries, confusion converts.

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from Halfdeck 1607 Days ago #
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" They assume if the author knows such words as "meta" he must be good.Sad, but true."That’s absolutely true. In fact, I believe the easiest way to gain trust is to reference ideas and facts your readers have probably never heard of - which tells them "he knows something I don’t know. So maybe he does know something."Still, those articles were written more for search engines than for people. I believe the confusion can be blamed on the writer’s ignorance; now, if the article is purposefully confusing I’d be impressed.

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1607 Days ago #
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Yeah, perhaps I’m giving him too much credit.There’s plenty of ways to confuse people referencing todays more current SEO model."Link Velocity" is one of my favorites.Extra points because I get the mental image of a 3d link being launched via catapult.

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from motherduck 1607 Days ago #
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Interesting that no actual URLs are mentioned on the portfolio page, only 3 keyword queries which apparently are their crowning achievement. I love the third one - Delhi Infraheights. There are 4 URLs in Google’s SERP, 2 of which are from their own site. But the client is #1.

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from rishilakhani 1607 Days ago #
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lol... I wonder how they rank for "Delhi SEO"? I mean they are proud to say: "AN Info Solutions has acquired the number 1 position on Google.com on searching the keyword SEO firm Delhi"... hmmm whats the ROI on that?

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1606 Days ago #
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@motherduck: I’m pretty surprised this sphinn page isn’t indexed yet, but thanks to you when it does, this page will probably outrank all of them! heh.

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from rishilakhani 1606 Days ago #
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its indexed:http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=worst+search+marketing&meta=lol... maybe the title of the post should be stuffed with all their keywords?

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