Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
I would not oppose some means of allowing authors to
add META
tags that were honest and accurate and based on human judgment.
But if we created META tags by some automated process just to
get higher rankings on search engines that still use them,
then we would be guilty of manipulation just as other
advertisers are.
I'm not sure there's anything inherently dishonest about creating meta
keyword tags from linked words. Those keywords are real keywords for
the article -- it seems like a pretty good proxy for what humans would
enter into a separate field anyway, and yet it doesn't cost us any
human labor.
I guess my question is: what's the downside? What's the harm?
Generally being guilty of participating in something that other people
manipulate unfairly doesn't strike me as a real downside.
--Jimbo