| Is Google Webmaster Tools “significant” for SEO? |
| Fri, 13 Nov 2009 by Joe Bursell Following on from Emily’s post about Google’s webmaster tools dishing yet more info that may feed our SEO needs I thought I’d throw in some analysis. After some rooting around it has become apparent that the “significant” words that the Significance list presents are pretty shocking. Here’s why… Across a number of sites I found instances where tag names are listed in GWT as being significant keywords. These are not chance occurrences where a word like “div”, “span” or “class” are mentioned in any title, meta or content. It has even given “blogger” some significance when that site uses the Blogger platform for posts- again this word only appears in meta “generator” tags or is part of link that calls java from Blogger itself. Here are some samples:
…all of this leads me to believe it is just scanning mark-up and reporting all instances of a word, and doesn’t appear to take into account where the words appear. The problem is that this data can be interpreted as an exact measure of the keyword weighting/relevance of a site, which is misleading, and annoying. |
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