key words at bottom of home page

[stevread1]

I have noticed a lot of sites have a list of key words across the bottom of the home page.

Wondering if this helps with seo or is it a waiste of time. Personally im not keen on the idea as it looks untidy.

[seamus]

it can be useful but theres other ways to get keywords onto your pages rather than basically spamming your own page footer

I think it looks untidy aswell to be honest

[stevread1]

Yes id rather write a short introduction and include key words  , looks so much more proffesional and is more informative about what you do.

[scotserve]

It also may marke you down for keyword stuffing, I have seen many where the keywords are totally irrelavent to the site as a whole and on every page to me it is people listening to bad advice

[Click SSL]

Some times it look should be targeting their inner webpages from bottom links through various keywords....

[Rainee Bows]

you would be better to write a decent piece of text providing links to inner pages covering keywords and target phrases , if you also include category descriptions (your software should allow for this ) you can get more text in without links which will make the site more "relevant" to the searches you are aiming for , make the text well written and readable, dont fill it full of links as google reads like a human and can recognise keyword stuffing (spamming) from a mile off , you could also write an about me page for the site which you can include locations in as another hint to google, and if you havent already , get your business registered with google maps ,

Steve you should really be attending the wednesday workshops 

Rainee x