Spaces in META tags

[publicgadfly]

I've read a fair amount about spaces in META tags, especially the KEY WORD tag being detrimental. After reviewing a number of sites that have high rankings I have concluded my understanding is incorrect. Apparently spaces are not the death dealer I believed.

ie. look, smart, now, xray

Is there something regarding 'spaces' that I am missing?[/list]

[minstrel]

Is there something regarding 'spaces' that I am missing?
Hi, publicgadfly:

Have a look at this thread:
Keywords, commas, spaces (http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=8664)

[rlrouse]

Experimentation has proven (at least to my satisfaction) that it makes no difference for ranking purposes. I don't use spaces in the interest of reducing the file size by a few bytes per page.

[publicgadfly]

Thanks minstrel for the links. I remembered something recently but couldn't find it.

My 'conclusion' then- except for spaces counting as 'a character' (as in maximum characters) the spiders don't care if a keyword is seperated with a comma and no space or a keyword and a space.

As stated above, removing spaces would also reduce the file size and load time.

[minstrel]

My 'conclusion' then- except for spaces counting as 'a character' (as in maximum characters) the spiders don't care if a keyword is seperated with a comma and no space or a keyword and a space. As stated above, removing spaces would also reduce the file size and load time.
That's my conclusion, too (which of course doesn't make it correct...). As for removing the spaces to improve load time by decreasing characters, unless you have a truckload of keywords (which may create other problems for you), I don't know that removing spaces is going to make much real difference and it does decrease readability for editing...