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		<title>Does Google Use The Meta Keywords Tag To Calculate Your Websites Rank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>No.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/">Confirmation from Google employee Matt Cutts</a>:</p>
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<p>Just to clarify, there are many different types of meta tags, the 3 most common are:</p>
<p>1. The title tag (The text appears at the very top of the web browser window). Eg:</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;title&gt;Welcome to my website!&lt;/title&gt;</p>
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<p>2. The meta description tag (Where you provide a summary of the contents of your webpage, and sometimes Google displays the contents on the Search Engine Results Page)</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;meta name=&#8221;description&#8221; content=&#8221;A summary of your webpage&#8221; /&gt;</p>
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<p>3. The meta keywords tag (Which has always been a dumping ground for any keyword you can think of, but I haven&#8217;t bothered with for 2 years because my experiments showed it was ignored)</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;meta name=&#8221;description&#8221; content=&#8221;keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword&#8221; /&gt;</p>
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