http://www.websitehits.com/taxonomy/term/13/0 One of the words used to find matching web pages. en http://www.websitehits.com/keyword <p>A <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/keyword"><acronym title="keyword: One of the words used to find matching web pages.">keyword</acronym></a> in an Internet search is one of the words used to find matching web pages. It was popularized during the early days of <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/search-engine"><acronym title="search engine: A system designed to help find information stored on the Web.">search engine</acronym></a> development, as it was not possible to ask natural language questions and find the desired sites. Searches gave the best results if only a few <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/keyword"><acronym title="keyword: One of the words used to find matching web pages.">keywords</acronym></a> were chosen and searched for. These "keywords" captured the essence of the topic in question and were likely to be present on all sites listed by the search engine.</p> <p>Keywords are still used today. Many modern <a class="glossary-term" href="/seo-terms-and-definitions/search-engine"><acronym title="search engine: A system designed to help find information stored on the Web.">search engines</acronym></a> have methods for determining which words in a search string are important and are ought to be treated as keywords. Common words like articles (a, an, the) and conjunctions (and, or, but) are not treated as keywords because it is inefficient to do so. Almost every English-language site on the Internet has the article the and so it makes no sense to search for it.</p> keyword Thu, 9 Nov 2006 12:48:53 -0500 joseph 7 at http://www.websitehits.com