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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yes i agree now a days google prefer quality backlinks only
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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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Meta tags for your site are very very important and without meta tags your site wont be indexed and crawled by search engines. Google will not crawl the site. To view meta tags of any site you need to install a search status plugin on your browser. It also helps to rank your website.
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Hi,
I think meta tags play an important role in websites optimization. and they are very useful.
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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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Google lays importance to sites with that of Meta tags.
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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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Hi.
I Dont think so..that keyword meta tags are not useful in SEO.This is a very important on-page technique without optimizing this on our site we wont get it on Top of SERP. This should be performed on our site. as without this Google wont let your site to rank.
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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.
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I cannot agree with you because The meta keywords and tags are most important part of SEO.
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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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