News: "Keywords" meta tag not useful in SEO
started by Navin Prakash on Mar 17, 2010 — RSS Feed
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Google stops the "keywords" meta tag in ranking web search results, for details please read here:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.c...a-tag.html
But yaar they didn't mention that if we still use "Keyword" meta tag in our site then it can be harmful for our site?? Undecided If some body know about it please suggest me here...
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honestly this is old news! The meta keyword tag is not harmful, but useless as there are almost no SE's left that use it.
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one, thing that they are still used by is directories, so they have some value, but that would hardly count half a percent
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To Google the most important factor is "quality" links to your site. By this they mean the content in the links is relevant to your content and not just a link exchange.
They also look at the length of time the website has been online and how often the content is updated.
Keyword phrases not used.
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Herman Brummer said:
honestly this is old news! The meta keyword tag is not harmful, but useless as there are almost no SE's left that use it.
I too agree with him.
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To have good visibility on Google use of relevant keywords on site are necessary. So i think that its no harm to use keywords meta tag.
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Also for Google the best is quality and excellent content, that people likes and visit. And quality links. That makes your site rank higher.
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Really this is previous reports! The Meta keyword tag is not harmful, but a waste of time as there is almost no SE'O’s left that use it.
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Meta tag keywords is not useful but description is most important in meta tag.
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Meta tag keywords is not useful but description is most important in meta tag.
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Why not "waste" the 10 seconds it takes to type some keywords? There seems to be no harm in having keywords, and there are still directories and maybe even some SE's that cares about meta keywords.
I agree that meta description still is useful, but not really for SEO. I use the description tag to reach out with a message to the user. For example that there are free shipping or some other advantage, or maybe some current offer. That will not only show upp in the search results, but also if someone post a link on facebook.
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Yes, google does not read "Keywords" META tags now a days. Common website owner , designers, and SEO'S are responsible for this. Most of the time websites having keywords in their "Keywords" Meta tags but not found in the page content. This is most dangerous think. Earlier days people place lots of keywords in the meta tags, to misguide google. The site owner thought that google will index their website with those keywords. For these reason google does not read this meta tags becoause most of the time most of the keywords are absent in the main content. I hope you people will agree with me.
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Well, Search Engine optimizers have already left the idea of using Meta keyword tags! Yes, they do not possess any kind of threat to those who still use it but that do not make them useful either. Since Google has stopped Meta keyword tagging, Search Engine optimizers do not need it anymore. The only area where Meta keyword tags can still be found being used is directories! But then again, that scarcely accounts for what it was used for previously!
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I agree that meta description still is useful, but not really for SEO. I use the description tag to reach out with a message to the user. For example that there are free shipping or some other advantage, or maybe some current offer. That will not only show upp in the search results, but also if someone post a link on facebook.
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Despite the fact that it's old news, I still see that people here are surprised to learn about these changes. Well, the search engines are evolving, particularly Google, and we are going to see lots of changes in the future. It was fun to spend my time here but I still needs to clean the dishes, the griddle and hurry up for my job. I also wanted to say that I don't know much about the effectiveness of meta tags and such about your rankings in the search engines, but it probably wouldn't cause any harm to add the keywords anyway.
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May it has no importance but i am using it personally because it tells a search engine about your website and search engine can easily know about your site. So no need to avoid the use of meta tags.
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Yes this is reality that this does not affect ranking in Google anymore.But these should be used because Yahoo worth it.
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Previously meta tags were the most important factor in ranking search engines. But now it wont consider the meta tags. In future, it may change. If we use meta keyword, the ranking wont decrease. So we can use it. No problem.
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Meta Keywords can not really do anything for SEO. But a meta description can help users or web visitors since this will serve as a snippet copy or the deciding factor if they will visit your site.
A good thing for SEO is by utilizing the different types of social media.
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Yes yor are right...as per google new algo. they are not consider meta keywords so its useless but other search engine consider meta keywords.
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Probably for website promotion,meta keywords will be one of the part and Google will like mostly fresh content after the algorithm changes.
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Web Outsourcing Gateway said:
Meta Keywords can not really do anything for SEO. But a meta description can help users or web visitors since this will serve as a snippet copy or the deciding factor if they will visit your site.
A good thing for SEO is by utilizing the different types of social media.
yes Web Outsourcing Gateway said correct
but meta keyword is depends on length limit & quality also
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Really meta keywords are outdated now. Using it is a wastage of time.
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No search engines use the keyword meta tag any more, the main parts they use and the header, description and of course the page content. But that is just the beginning, imagine how may pages in the world will have the same title and descriptor as yourself? Millions, so try and make it local search terms rather than national, you might have some success. I only say might.
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Use new and innovative keywords, and keywords should be relevant..
And keep on updating your keywords time by time..
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No...
Meta tag of Keywords is very useful for the Optimization of your website..
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Navin Prakash said:
Google stops the "keywords" meta tag in ranking web search results, for details please read here:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.c...a-tag.html
But yaar they didn't mention that if we still use "Keyword" meta tag in our site then it can be harmful for our site?? Undecided If some body know about it please suggest me here...
No, having keywords in your meta will not be harmful. The keyword in meta is ignored by main search engines (Google and Bing).
What important to understand is if you have a site and you use internal search crawler (often used by intranet within larger organizations), there's a switch to use keyword meta-tag or not. (default is also ignore
, but can be changed to true). So, neither google nor bing penalize you for putting anything you need into that keyword meta.
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meta tags still have some life left in them; they are sometimes used as the snippet of a site's content in search engine result pages by Google, and possibly other search engines.
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I also read that google does not give the importance to keywords meta tags but we are still using this tag. why? we can analyze practically in two sites. i will use in first site meta keywords and in other one i will not use then i will see the effect of meta keyword tag. what you say about this idea?
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Meta keywords are part of On-Page SEO and without On-Page SEO off-Page SEO is not very successful. so before starting Link Building/ Off-Page SEO you should complete On-Page SEO Works.
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Can any one suggest me if we use dublin meta tag at website then it will be benefit or harmfull. please suggest me....
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It is true that google stopped giving importance to meta tags but we should updated them while doing onpage optimization of our websites because there are quiet a lot of other search engines like yahoo and bing which still give importance to meta tags..
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I am not agree. Actually keywords which you are using anywhere in your website is helpful for better search engine ranking.
Because Google and other search engine see the keyword relevancy in entire page not only in few areas of website.
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If you do a google search (UK site) for SEO, you'll see theat a company called creareseo are at position #1, view their source and you'll also see that they have no keywords in their meta tags.
Say's it all really, back links are king!!
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I agree back links are king. Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO.
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Pacifico Odye said:
I agree back links are king. Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO.
Indeed Very truly said, Really Back links have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization. And
i totally agree that meta tags are usefull in SEO any more, Because google have stopped giving importance to meta tags.
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Meta keywords are very important. When it comes to the description it holds its own place. Just try this,go to the google search and type the keyword you want. You can see that where ever in the description the keyword is found is in bold.Moreover many times the short description makes the user to visit your site.
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Herman Brummer said:
one, thing that they are still used by is directories, so they have some value, but that would hardly count half a percent
True but nowadays its more useful for building local citations and only submitting to high quality directories.
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Nice post.Thank you so much for sharing this post.
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Meta tags were the most important factor in ranking search engines. But now it wont consider the meta tags. In future, it may change. If we use meta keyword, the ranking wont decrease. So we can use it. No problem.
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content, link quality, anchor text, social media, title tags; in that order of importance.
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Meta Keywords is not useful in terms of ranking . If you put meta keywords in your website , competitors know your keyword which is not good
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meta keywords can't harm to websites. It is just their opinion not to use it.
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Google is not considering the meta keywords tag because many people are stuffing it.
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Meta Keywords Tag is not harmful but it has no importance from seo point of view.
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basically meta tags are very helpful for Search engines its shows title, meta description, keywords tags and by help of these tags search engine crawler seek easier your website.
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Image Proz said:
What about keyword phrases? Are these being used?
Yes keywords phrases so important in SEO.
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Meta tags is also very useful cause it will serve as another keyword that can be search in the search engine. Is is good to use it but if the google will stop us using meta tags, we can't do anything but we hope so that there's some alternatives of it.
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Now meta tags have a different use. And it is arguably hardly an effective means to affect your search engine rankings. Aside from the tag, there is not much use for meta tags anymore. So I’ve come up with what little use meta tags still has for your website’s SEO.
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Keyword is significant in your site. As far a i know that Google ranks the websites containing the best,relevant and unique keywords.I think meta tags is quite useful in contrast to meta description because meta tags is an alternative way to use for searching as a keyword.I think it is still applicable and useful.
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Hassan Thomas said:
Meta keywords are part of On-Page SEO and without On-Page SEO off-Page SEO is not very successful. so before starting Link Building/ Off-Page SEO you should complete On-Page SEO Works.
i agree with dis reply
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100% True
meta keywords can't harm to websites. It is just their opinion not to use it.
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Google does not read "Keywords" META tags now a days, this is as per Google new algorithm.
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I think usage of keywords meta tag is important but yes if we can add much keyword in meta tag. So, obviously Google will stop counting.
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To have good visibility on Google use of relevant keywords on site are necessary. So i think that its no harm to use keywords meta tag.
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Hi everyone,
Google does not use the keywords metatag. The fundamental reason for search engines to ignore the keyword metatag is that spammers abused it in the early days of SEO.
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I don't think so!! Meta tags are not harmful.
Your keywords tag should have ten or fifteen words, twenty at the very most. You may repeat your three most important keywords once, if you like, but repeat them more than that and the search engine is likely to ignore them, or it would not list your page at all.
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Google does not give the same importance to keywords now.But using keywords in meta tags will not harm your website.Keyword stuffing should be avoided and focus should be on quality content.
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Although a lot of weight used to be given to meta tags by the search engines, on the whole they are now unimportant elements of a website. Instead of using meta tags to determine what a webpage is about, the search engines now focus on other tags and the content of a webpage (their intelligence has greatly increased over the years).
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I have no idea about those topic..!!!But if you tell that meta tag is not used in seo than i trust you...!!!
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mainly is in offpage SEO title and short but meaningful description i agree that meta still is useful for SEO .google does not give the same importance to keywords now.But using keywords in meta tags will not harm your website and the fundamental reason for search engines to ignore the meaningless keyword.
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Hello,
Keyword meta tag useful in SEO. By using Keyword SEO increase traffic on your site and increase your web site rank page. Keyword is a way to find your site if any body not know your site IP address.
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Accoding to google matt cutts..now google prefer Meta tags,,and Meta Keywords.
So these are very important part of website now..
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In the past meta tags were used by many leading search engines to determine what a page was all about.In particular website owners would include their keywords in the keyword meta tag of a page in order to gain rank for their specific keywords within their desired search engine. This led tomany of people spamming the meta tag area and in the end, the amount of authority given to them by the search engines diminished to pretty much nothing. It may be an idea to have a look around for a company that offers SEO services as they will be able to help when it comes to meta tags.
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Thanks for shared such a interesting and also informative news.I liked your post and i think that's good news for seo users...!!!
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Hey for what you are working? First of all I would like to say that r u targeting only google or other search enging as well?
If you are targeting other search engine than you should use, infact you must use.
Meta tag will not count as a negetive untile and unless it's not being used over or exesive.
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Meta tags have no value anymore since then! So, stop stuffing your meta tags..
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You are right but your meta"keyword" length must be of 165 character. If you follow this rule there would be no effect on bot crawling and can get high PR.
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if you still give meta keyword tag then it is not harmful; google just does not count it.
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Though meta keywords tags are not a major factor search engines consider when ranking sites, they should not be left off the page. Both the meta keywords tag and the meta description tag contribute to your search engine ranking. A meta keywords tag is supposed to be a brief and concise list of the most important themes of your page. The meta keywords tag takes the following form:
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The importance of discovering keywords should not be overlooked. This is a crucial part of SEO. If you choose to make a searchable site, your Meta tags and site should have suitable keywords. This will help visitors in finding your site. In the case that you are uncertain of the keywords, you can hire the services of experts. They are able to have site optimization with the proper keywords. They will function greatly to enhance your Web presence. SEO services have rates that are reasonable. Any person can afford this but one should be accountable in selecting the services from competent SEO experts. One is not going to be dismayed with their work.
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Yes, would it kill you to type some keywords. It'll only cost a few seconds really. It may not matter to Google but at least its filled.
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I'm using meta tag for my website : http://thegarden.com.vn
But I think meta tag is helpful in copywirting issue : if we writing best, searcher will see and interact the content then will click more and more.
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Meta tags are basically tags that are contained within the section of a HTML document. In the past they were used by search engines to determine what a page was about; in particular website owners would include their keywords in the keyword meta tag of a page in order to rank for their specific keywords in the search engines. However, this led to a lot of people spamming the meta tag area and in the end, the amount of authority given to them by the search engines diminished to almost nothing. There are a variety of different meta tags that can be employed although most will not do a lot for an SEO strategy.search engines now focus on other tags and the content of a webpage (their intelligence has greatly increased over the years). The keyword meta tag in particular is not used at all by the search engines in determining a web page’s authority.
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The Meta tag in html is not a required tag when you're creating your web pages; many pages don't use the tag at all, and I must confess that I've not used it on my home page, although I put it into this page by way of demonstration. To put it briefly, the meta tag is used by search engines to allow them to more accurately list your site in their indexes.
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Hello Navin,
If you use keyword meta tag that will be not harmful for your website. You are right Google and Yahoo does not read keyword meta tag that's why i am also not using it in my website Glanceseo.com
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Hi,
I think we need to use only 5-7 keyword for our web site. But we need to choose those keyword which are best for our site.
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Yes meta tags are still very important. because title tags and meta description are showing in search result. If meta description not found on a web page then google show description from directory which is relevant to a web page.
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meta keywords are not important in SEO. but if we write then it is no much very harmful.
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i think all seo guys know about meta keywords and google not give value but few other search engine can give value so i think you should use meta keywords for all the websites.
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Meta tag is an old thing. This tag spammers used to promote their scam sites. That's why Google made the right decision.
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Meta elements are the HTML or XHTML element used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Multiple elements are often used on the same page: the element is the same, but its attributes are different. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.
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Thanks for explaining about the meta tag as not useful in SEO. I am also new to SEO field and it is very helpful for me.
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Honestly speaking! The meta keyword tag is not harmful, but useless as there are almost no SE's left that use it.
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Yes. I agree the google to does not consider the Meta "Keywords". Only they consider Title tag and Meta description.
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David Warner said:
Yes. I agree the google to does not consider the Meta "Keywords". Only they consider Title tag and Meta description.
Yeah, you are right but the keywords meta tags aren't harmful for the site promotion.
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