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We Can Help You Learn and Develop Custom Drupal Themes (Assistance & Mentoring)

Helping others learn Drupal and achieve their goals is a particularly fun aspect of working with Drupal. One of the most fun aspects of completing a project is doing a tutorial with a new website owner on how to manage their site and use Drupal, whether it's the default administrative interface or customized admin functions we've created.

Custom Drupal theme development is another aspect of Drupal that I thorough enjoy. And having had the opportunity to answer questions and assist other developers in forums, through email, and etc., I wanted to post a more formal offer.

SEO: Meta Keywords Are Dead

The use of meta keywords for SEO purposes is not efficient because major search engines stopped using them quite some time ago.

This is more of an article "stub" than anything since some of the planned content for this site on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been delayed. But a quick FYI post seemed appropriate.

I've noticed a fair amount of content on the internet in various places - not all of which is "old" - urging website owners to pay attention to including meta keywords in their site's pages. But here's the thing: you would probably be wasting your time.

Unless you are targeting a smaller or more obscure search engine that does use meta keywords, there is little point in including such in the head tag of your website. Google doesn't use it. Some mentioned that Yahoo still does so I did a test the other day. Conclusion: Yahoo doesn't use meta keywords either.

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