Poison Keywords?

RidinHighSpeeds · #1 (**permalink**) 05-28-2005, 11:34 AM

I found a pretty cool meta-tag analyzer tool
http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-...-analyzer.html
and my site scored poorly because I have a poison keyword of "forum".

Anyone know if this just bs?

I typed the word forum in Google and came up with many results...

cbp · #2 (**permalink**) 05-28-2005, 05:49 PM

Me thinks it BS.

CBP

**brian.mark** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-29-2005, 12:06 AM

Nice find, RidinHighSpeeds. My site scored very well for that. It gave me a few ideas as well, and showed me some phrases that I rank for in MSN very well (didn't know to check them).

As for forum, I'd say it isn't really needed in the meta tags for most forums, but I can see both sides of the thinking process. If I'm searching for information, I click on forum links but don't search for forum. If I'm looking for a forum on a topic, I include that word. I search for info a lot more than I search for a forum, though.

Brian.