In the world of SEO, how important is it to individually name each page.

Does it make a difference in optimization?

How many keywords are too many? Does it matter?

Are there any description relevancy softwares out there? Anything that auto extracts?

Why is that I see sites all the time with hardly any optimizations in meta outranking ones that do?

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It's vitally important to name each page individually. Too much text in the title is when you can't read the whole thing around the browser's name, or in the search results.

You see sites with no meta tags ( like mine, although I'm adding descriptions to each page ) outrank pages that have them because they're ignored by the search engines when it comes to choosing which sites to return and in what order. The keywords meta tag was useful about 10 years ago, but it worked on the honor system, and, well, that just didn't work out. Nowadays, the 'bots can find their own keywords just by reading the page. And they come up with their results by comparing the query against the text on your page, and how many sites ( of what quality ) point at you with text links with [part of] the search term.

I'm not sure what you mean by description relevancy software? What are you looking for?

Thanks for the reply.

So I should quit using keywords all together?

From what I understand, page description to page content relevancy has a rather large impact on your position.

Are there any programs that aid in meta description to page content relevancy or do I just have to come up with the description for each page on my own?

On a couple of my sites, this would be a very time consuming thing to do because of their size.

Okay, there are two relevant meta tags here ( keywords and description ), and then a lot of people call the title a meta tag, too. The keywords tag, as far as I know, no search engine that turns up in your referrer log uses it. The description tag will be shown under your title and link in the search results pages, if you have a desc meta tag. I don't really think any software could generate those for you, because it's the little blurb humans read before they decide whether to click you or move on to the next site. It doesn't have any effect on where you come out on the list, though.

I've been working on software that does keyword analysis on a page by page basis, but it's not finished yet. And I wouldn't trust it to write up a meta description, because all it could do is give you the most common words on the page, and that's going to confuse someone enough to keep looking.

If you don't use the meta desc, the search engine will show some of the text on your page instead.

From what I understand, page description to page content relevancy has a rather large impact on your position.

Nope, it may have a very small place in the overall picture, but the main use of the meta description is outlined in http://www.webmaster-talk.com/seo-ta...tml#post351767

The most important part of any on-page optimising are the contents of the HTML title ( <title>These words</title>) element

Why is that I see sites all the time with hardly any optimizations in meta outranking ones that do

Because the contents of the meta keywords element are largely ignored by the major search engines.

Well ... I thank you very much for the info. I think I need to read up a bit on this topic.

I had no Idea keywords were being practically ignored.

What about those SEO analysis tools? Like http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-...-analyzer.html

I guess they're there to ruin page rank?

What about those SEO analysis tools? Like http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-...-analyzer

Thanks for your information.I think this tool is very valuable for any webmaster.