Timeline for Prevent Googlebot from seeing or indexing common keywords such as "read full story"
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 13:42 | comment | added | John Mueller | FWIW the content keywords report in Webmaster Tools is based on crawling, not indexing/ranking/relevance. Just because something's mentioned there doesn't mean that Google sees it as being relevant for the site. You don't need to optimize for that report. | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 11:48 | answer | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 11:41 | history | edited | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
more descriptive title
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| Dec 11, 2014 at 11:27 | history | edited | unor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added tag, line breaks
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| Dec 11, 2014 at 4:44 | comment | added | closetnoc | Yeah. I am not saying that these words have no value, but looking at my log analyzer stats, Google Analytics, and Google Webmaster Tools, none of the GWT keywords has ever showed up in search since I started paying attention. As well, for most of these other SEO sites, the lists there are at least 6 months old and some older. SEMRush is fairly fresh and reliable though their traffic estimates are way off as well as Alexa which in my opinion is pure junk. | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 4:22 | comment | added | dasickle | @closetnoc Got it. I am with you on this and barely look at those myself but I did find "There is not one keyword on that list that has returned a search user in the past 2+ years." interesting. | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 4:13 | comment | added | closetnoc | @dasickle It was just a comment on these kinds of lists in general, but yes, I was referring to the Google Webmasters Tools Content Keyword list. It can be misleading as is the various density tools, keyword sites and so on. I am not saying there is no purpose for these lists, I assume there is, they just do not seem to apply nearly as much as people feel they do. In short- I see SEO sites of all stripes (but not all of course) leading poor folks down rabbit-holes instead of really helping them get a handle on what can be a really tough thing to figure out- how to rank their site. | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 3:50 | comment | added | dasickle | @closetnoc "I do not even like the Google Webmaster Tools list". Are you referring to the Queries Report or Content Keywords Report in GWT? | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 21:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWebmasters/status/542795348675407872 | ||
| Dec 10, 2014 at 19:36 | comment | added | closetnoc | Generally speaking, these lists of site keywords really end-up being useless. @JohnConde is right. I do not even like the Google Webmaster Tools list. There is not one keyword on that list that has returned a search user in the past 2+ years. But at the same time, you do not want links like this even though search engines know how to handle them. I always use the target page title tag or h1 tag for the link text. Of course I follow that up with read more... no one is perfect! | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 18:57 | vote | accept | chris.ford13 | ||
| Dec 10, 2014 at 18:34 | answer | added | dasickle | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 18:34 | comment | added | John Conde♦ | They don't think they are the main keywords for your site. Every page ranks individually and can rank for an unlimited amount of keywords. The main content on that page and incoming links will affect those pages' rankings more than that one snippet/link. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 18:21 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 10, 2014 at 18:19 | history | asked | chris.ford13 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |