meta tag keyword wildcard

[Guest]

Is it possible to add a wildcard (*) in a meta tag keyword? Ex: compan* to
cover both company, companies, companys......

Thanks in advance

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

no, and most search engines will automatically handle this.

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[Andrew Murray]

I don't know....it might just treat it as text, and index the character *
(asterisk), rather than what you want to do.

"compan*" will also find words like "companion" and many other useless words
commencing compan if they don't apply to your site, affecting your site
listing in search engines. It's probably better that you put the whole word
in.

Anyway, Meta tags "keywords" doesn't matter so much since search engines
index the entire page these days.

 

[Jon Spivey]

No disrespect to you mate but that's nonsense. Search engines do not index
meta keywords anymore - it doesn't matter if you put in * or anything else
it's not going to affect your ranking one way or the other.

It might be better if you confined your answers to questions you know
something about.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Jon:

Andrew likes to reply to as many posts as possible, even though they have
been replied to by others. He has a tendency, IMHO, to simply parrot other
replies.

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| No disrespect to you mate but that's nonsense. Search engines do not index
| meta keywords anymore - it doesn't matter if you put in * or anything else
| it's not going to affect your ranking one way or the other.
|
| It might be better if you confined your answers to questions you know
| something about.
|
| --
| Cheers,
| Jon
| Microsoft MVP
|
| | >I don't know....it might just treat it as text, and index the character *
| >(asterisk), rather than what you want to do.
| >
| > "compan*" will also find words like "companion" and many other useless
| > words commencing compan if they don't apply to your site, affecting
your
| > site listing in search engines. It's probably better that you put the
| > whole word in.
| >
| > Anyway, Meta tags "keywords" doesn't matter so much since search engines
| > index the entire page these days.
| >
| > | >> Is it possible to add a wildcard (*) in a meta tag keyword? Ex: compan*
| >> to
| >> cover both company, companies, companys......
| >>
| >> Thanks in advance
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Bob Lehmann]

SPIVEY >>Search engines do not index meta keywords anymore
Isn't that more or less what he said?

Qualified answer...
MURRAY >>I don't know....it might just treat it as text, and index the
character *

Followup...
MURRAY>>Anyway, Meta tags "keywords" doesn't matter so much since search
engines index the entire page these days.

Bob Lehmann

 

[Murray]

Actually, the middle comment is not mine, at least I don't think it is.

And I definitely cede to Jon's understanding of SEO stuff.

But it has been my general experience that Keywords make no (or only minor)
difference in your index ranking.