Although Google no longer gives the META keywords tag as much importance as it did a few years ago, it’s still important to optimize your pages for Yahoo and MSN, which now share about 50% of the search market.
While you would usually put commas between keywords, it’s sometimes better not to do so. This way you might match a more specific search query. For instance, use "cheap portable laptop computers" instead of "cheap laptops, portable computers." However, be careful to keep this technique balanced since overdoing it may be considered spam.
I’m with you! For the first time in nearly three years, I got more traffic generated to my site from Yahoo and MSN than from Google.
Comment by Work@HomeGuru — October 16, 2005 @ 12:56 pm