Text that is not user visible, such as the keyword metatags, stopped being significant years ago, because the Spammers made them abused them so badly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In a previous post, Five Goals to Improve Your Web Site, we talked about the importance of links and images working properly, spell checking, alt tags, keyword metatags, and linking to other web sites. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Relying on keyword metatags: Deserves the number 1 spot, simply because this stopped working 3 years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Our web search (the well-known search at Google. com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword metatags completely. ❋ Unknown (2009)
(As usual, the judge doesn't know or seem to care that there are multiple flavors of metatags, but the opinion treats them as keyword metatags). ❋ Unknown (2008)
If they don't know that keyword metatags are irrelevant technologically, drop them immediately. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The point is that your attorney will need to explain to the judge why keyword metatags don't matter from a technological standpoint (like the attorneys apparently did in this case), and if your attorney doesn't understand the technology, the judge won't either. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If they don’t know that keyword metatags are irrelevant technologically, drop them immediately. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The point is that your attorney will need to explain to the judge why keyword metatags don’t matter from a technological standpoint (like the attorneys apparently did in this case), and if your attorney doesn’t understand the technology, the judge won’t either. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The court holds that, as a matter of law, the use of keyword-triggered ads and keyword metatags cannot confuse consumers if the resulting ads/search results don’t display the plaintiff’s trademarks. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Google ignores keyword metatags) and bought them as AdWords keywords. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Our web search (the well-known search at Google. com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword metatags completely. ❋ Unknown (2009)
( "metatags") information in Windows Media Player. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The documentarians mention the former student leader's present company Jenzabar on some website pages, use of "Jenzabar" in the metatags for those pages, and use "jenzabar" as part of some filenames (shades of ballysucks and a couple of other cases; has anyone ever won a trademark claim against a non-top-level use of a mark in a URL?). ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
Make sure you understand how to use metatags properly. ❋ Marc Ostrofsky (2011)
Yahoo is introducing ways by which webmasters can more fully describe websites that will be less subject to the abuse that rendered metatags nearly unusable. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The marketing payoff is trivial at best, and too many courts are overreacting to the presence of metatags. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As a good acid test, ask your attorney if they know how search engines index keyword metatags. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Because of the metatags, these talking points came directly from the US Senate but it is uncertain who drafted or copied the content. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My doctor went to a seminar yesterday ($100+) where the ‘expert’ was busy selling her on buying a domain name, hiring a designer, using web development software, understanding site maps and navigation and keywords and metatags and servers … ❋ Unknown (2007)
