Word Count: 238 Articles are not the place for keyword lists
I know many of you are trying to get more traffic to your sites and this is
probably one of the main reasons you submit articles. Submitting articles has
proven to be an effective method of gaining visitors to ones site and continues
to grow in effectiveness.
Some people seem to think that dropping many keywords (comma separated list
format) into their articles will help with search engines, and they may be
right. But articles are not the place for keyword lists. Meta tags are...
The HTML standards has thought about the need for keywords and have a special
location for them, which is called Meta. Keyword lists belong in meta tags and
not in the articles you submit. Anyone that would use an article or signature
for keyword lists does not understand search engines or article marketing.
 Signatures are a special article location just for the Author and should be
used wisely. Wise use is considered to be plugging your website, service,
product, knowledge and/or professional expertise and the article signature is
uniquely set up for this purpose.
Using valuable signature space for comma separated keywords and not utilizing
this space to pitch your site, service, product, etc. is truly a waste and not
very popular with publishers/editors.
An article is used to share information with real people, not
search engines. Please use your article space wisely.
Ray Gilman
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