Hi Cath - your website designer/developer is correct. Whenever my clients would get *old* information about adding keywords to meta tags or other tricks to get them ahead, I would also give them that information.

It's also important to make sure that the page will validate. Go go http://validator.w3.org and it will show results of what needs fixing.

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Lisa Wells - Go here to get Free Marketing Tips, Resources, & Forms for your VA Biz

I'd also like to add in a great report that a good friend of mine wrote, you can grab it here, it's free to download with no sign up necessary. It talks about finding the right keywords and covers much of what everyone has already spoken about, but this is something I recommend to anyone looking to get a good initial view of Keyword research...

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Renee Shupe, Redhead Business Solutions
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Hi everyone,

I have done a lot of research on this lately and all the info I have read is very current. To learn about what is important in SEO, I have read a good cross seciton of advice from many different sources. What I have discovered is that Google no longer uses keywords or phrases but other search engines still do. Here is a quote from an interview of fellow VA, Tess Strand about SEO.

Q: There seems to be a lot of confusion about the importance of meta tags – title, description and keywords - to search engine rankings. Which ones matter and which ones don’t?
A: They all matter. Although not all of them matter to Google and this is where the confusion comes in. In an effort to please Google, people sometimes forget that there are other search engines out there; and some of those search engines do take meta tags and keywords into account. It certainly doesn’t hurt to work out these elements with SEO in mind and in any case, Google is a fickle audience, what they may have discounted this season could become important again later. If there’s an aspect to SEO that you are aware of and have the ability to implement or add to your website, do it and do it right. http://www.vbsondemand.com/pdfs/tess...-interview.pdf

Hope this is helpful.

Sue

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Susan Parsons | Niagara V.A. Solutions
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it's nice to participate in the discussion on keyword research where some people picked out major facts about selection of keywords. In my experience the basic way of selecting keyword is with low competition high search volume. But even in some cases we need to consider high competition when keyword is more relevant to the site. In most of cases it depends on current trend search volume of keyword..Plz let me know if any suggestions..