inktomi and keywords

[doniv]

the following is the keywords i have used on my home page

"printing press, <compnay name>, (compnay), (name),printing, press, printing services, security printing, book printing, commercial printing, packaging, pritning ,printing jobs,color printers, Printing quote, Printing estimate, web press, offset printing, sheet fed printing, newsletter printing, graphic design, prepress, electronic prepress, color scanning, scanning, (goegraphic location) , (country) , colour printing, color printing">

i did a website analysis on a particular site offering this free service adn it reported that the keyword "printing" is toomuch and may be rejected and considered as spamming.

i want to will this effect my ranking in google or it will not matter as google does not read keywords in the meta tags?

and is there any way to benefit frm the google dance. i mean improve ranking.


is ther any maximum number of times that a word can be used in the keyowrds tag? the webiste i used to test suggested not using a word more than 6 times!

ps.how important is SE marketing in the overall e-marketing of a website


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[ihelpyou]

Only Inktomi and Teoma look at the keywords tag. You should still put it in but only a few words. You can only target a couple of phrases per page anyway, so having all those words in that tag does nothing for you.

6 times? Once is all that is needed.

Yes, se marketing is important for any online business.

[Mhes]

I am always suspicious of comments like 'google ignores keyword tag' or ' googlebot will not follow a link if you tell her not to'. I suspect googlebot, or a disguised spider may look at everything to help establish a theme for a site or just explore what you are trying to hide..... e.g. loads of affiliate links etc.

With this in mind, I would keep the keywords tag very clean and non spammy. I reckon soon google will read them to help establish a theme for a site. All the words in the keyword tag should also be in the body text, preferably a couple of times. If they are not, they could trigger a spam filter.

If you have too many keywords listed, each one will have diluted importance, so 3 or 4 is a good number per page. Focused pages are better than something for everyone.