What is your opinion on meta tag keywords?

Bert Level X³

May 6, 2012, 9:09 am

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One of the things that has recently come up in the latest penguin update, is the use of meta keywords. Apparently sites were penalised if they used meta keywords along with keyword rich urls, keyword rich H1's and H2's.

Has anyone experineced a ranking drop that has these things keyword optimised?

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ITKING

ITKING

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the keywords meta tag was a critical element for early search engines. Much like the dinosaurs, this tag is a fossil from ancient search engine times.

The only search engine that looks at the keywords anymore is Microsoft's Bing and they use it to help detect spam. To avoid hurting your site, your best option is to never add this tag.

Source: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067564/How-To-Use-HTML-Meta-Tags

15 years ago

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robertman11

robertman11

I think Meta Keywords are invalid now and actually negatively affect you as a webmaster. Why you ask? Because if you fill out the meta keywords tag, you've just told anyone that can look at your source code what keywords you are targeting. This is very helpful for your competitors.

15 years ago

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gamingmaster42

gamingmaster42

I usually do not heavily optimize my meta tags, but I do optimize my H1, H2, and H3 tags on some sites, and my ranking dropped by about -10.

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soepeno

soepeno

Yesterday google update the pagerank. I do optimized the meta tag keyword and H1, H2, H3. My PR grow up from 0 to 3. I think the meta tag still has a positive effect on our sites.

15 years ago

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Bert

Bert

Yes, My new site was given a PR 2 the other day, but the rankings didn't improve!

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Bert

Bert

Thanks that is what i've been hearing! Obviuosly keywords are still very important for on page seo, just don't over optimize, or the penguin will get you!

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aapta

aapta

really important - its basics.

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gaurav1705

gaurav1705

Bert, In my opinion meta tags are really helpful in increasing the keyword frequency but at the same time if ts hampering the quality of the article then it harmful. Nothing should compromise with quality!

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chandan

chandan

by this site ratings will increase, crucially important guys

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rashin9

rashin9

Very Important In Ranking Sites

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Corzhens

Corzhens

May I ask this question that was bugging me for some time now? I have noticed that when I create a thread in a forum there is the space for tags which I assumed was nothing of importance. But when I started learning SEO the tags seem to be the keywords for the content. Am I right on my assumption? If I would tag the content of the thread in the forum with 20 keywords will that constitute spamming? My point is the forum member can sabotage the SEO of the forum by keyword stuffing.

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