aswettle, you hit it right on the nose. Another important thing to watch out for is 'code spamming'. Perhaps your page has a lot of different products and services to offer, for example, and you want...

Ok, circular. Is that another term for non-reciprocating?

Yes, both Carol and Brian have a very valid point. Tags by themselves are pointless, but when it comes to Google, tags are imprtant for determining whether a site is really based on what it's...

Once again, I will say, they are also important for the all-knowing, all-seeing Google. Not in the tag itself, but in that Google uses it as a way of looking to see if your claims on a meta tag are...

If I may ask, what have you done in terms of marketing your site in the past month? There may be a good reason for the PR drop that you don't see yet....PR is important, but so are other traffic...

I was refering to another post. The site that beeman runs. It's a suggestion for him and a damn good way to boost PR AND traffic.:)

Ajax's 2 cents: Have you considered building yourself a links page and filling it with links from sites that have good PR in exchange for a link back from them? As long as you keep the content...

Yes, meta tags are very important for a site. The place where people mess up most frequently is in the content of the site and the keywords tag. Basically, find words in your site's content that...