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I would argue that Amazon.com is probably one of the best sites on the web for SEO and they use Meta Keywords on every page. I have used them on our sites and seen no negative impacts either.

Meta keywords have never hurt any of our customer sites and can only help with other less known search engines. So I disagree with most here and say "keep them!"

We have a large consumer website with several sections that have navigation of several pages. How would I prevent the pages from getting duplicate content errors and how best would I handle SEO for these?

For example we have about 500 events with 20 events showing on each page. What is the best way to prevent all the subsequent navigation pages from getting a duplicate content and duplicate title error?

I meant an HTML sitemap.

Are you saying to exclude certain products from the sitemap that are not popular?

thanks!

If I have a website with thousands of products, is it a good idea to create a sitemap for this website for the search engines where you show maybe 250 products on a page so it makes it easy for the search engine to find the part and also puts that part closer to the home page?

Seems like google likes pages that are the closest to the home page (less clicks the better)

We built everything custom in php.

The second link I posted uses another directory "/wine/" which doesn't exist yet. That is the direction we'd like to go eventually where it would not have an underscore anymore. We would use mod_rewrite to do this.

You probably selected the second link which doesn't exist yet if you couldn't access our site.

Thanks for your response,

-tom

We have an underscore in a lot of our links. My question is since it is difficult to change existing site architecture, is an underscore really that negative?

Here is an example:

http://www.winematch.com/profile_368-2005-Artesa-Vineyards--Winery-Merlot-Reserve.html

Eventually we want to change this to

http://www.winematch.com/wine/2005-Artesa-Vineyards-Winery-Merlot-Reserve.html

but it is a big project.

Meta keywords have never hurt any of our customer sites and can only help with other less known search engines. So I disagree with most here and say "keep them!"