Keywords under Properties

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Does anyone know whether entering keywords from a document under Properties /
Summary has an effect in online searches? Specifically, if the document is
online, will the presence of keywords make the document more likely to be
listed higher when someone does a Google or other search?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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Does anyone know whether entering keywords from a document under Properties /
Summary has an effect in online searches? Specifically, if the document is
online, will the presence of keywords make the document more likely to be
listed higher when someone does a Google or other search?

Probably not, unless the engines that compile these things have started checking
file properties. But as far as I know, they only search the meta-information of
the HTML files that make up the actual websites.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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