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SixOfEleven

19 May, 2009 - 04:53 PM
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Hi,

I'm working on a couple blogs in blogger. How many keywords should I be putting in the keywords box under the entry? For example, one of my blogs is about creating an RPG in XNA. So I was thinking of putting keywords like:

- XNA
- role-playing game
- C#
- C Sharp

Would more than that be over kill?

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20 May, 2009 - 12:16 AM
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I think you should discrad the hyphen and make it two keywords.
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20 May, 2009 - 07:18 AM
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okay, I didn't think of how the hyphen would change things for the search engines, thanks...
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Is Blogger putting those keywords in the keyword meta tag, or using them for internal search? If it's the meta keyword description, I honestly wouldn't worry to much about it as the meta keyword tag is almost entirely ignored these days by search engines. Focus on a GREAT title (keyword rich, but human readable), and good keyword density (again, keyword rich, but natural and human readable) within your article.
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I didn't realize that keywords were mostly ignored now. I gather the labels are for internal search, don't know all that much about how search engines work. (It is something that I'm looking into though.)

So, I gather you are saying that I have to come up with better topics titles than:
It is a cold a rainy day here
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More something along the lines of:
Creating a menu system with XNA 3.0
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(much more specific and descriptive)

I think I can make the articles full of the keywords that I'm going to be using. For example in my RPG blog, I will use XNA, C#, RPG, role playing game, etc.

Thanks for the input. smile.gif
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