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Free February Networking & Education Meeting: Denver Entrepreneurs

Optimize Your Bottom Line Through Search Engine Optimization

Please join the Denver Entrepreneurs for our February meeting including power networking and education. Mike Belasco, a local Search Engine Optimization expert, will be sharing some great information that can help all of us optimize our websites, blogs, social media platforms, press releases, etc., to get even more traffic, prospects and customers. Meeting is Thursday, February 25 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

Google and other search engines work on algorithms to rank your site that are often secret. Mike Belasco has obviously broken the code helping scores of companies be ranked on the first page of Google. Founder of SEO Overflow, Mike will be talking to us about search engine optimization and why it is so important. Make sure you have the right keywords in the right places on your website, blog, social media profile, etc, Want to find out where to do keyword research? Are the meta tags still important? Your web designer may say they do SEO, but in reality do they? 

Mike will answer these questions and more to make sure you know the basics of SEO and what it takes have a successful website that is truly optimized for search engines. The next time someone says they know SEO and wants to optimize your website, you'll be able to ask them the right questions. RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Denver-Entrepreneurs/calendar/12484995. Admisstion $0.00 - yes free!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn't use) the "keywords" meta tag in ranking web search results. Suppose you have two website owners, Alice and Bob. Alice runs a company called AliceCo and Bob runs BobCo. One day while looking at Bob's site, Alice notices that Bob has copied some of the words that she uses in her "keywords" meta tag. Even more interesting, Bob has added the words "AliceCo" to his "keywords" meta tag. Should Alice be concerned?

via googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

Wondering about the "keywords" meta tag ranking on your website and whether this is important? Read this great article from Google's blog on this. We've heard for years how important your meta tags are. And although other search engines use this, according to this article, Google does not pay attention to meta tags. It is still considered "best practices" to include this since other search engines do pay attention to this. Let me know what you think.