Ezine Articles Keyword Box - How To Pick Keywords?

[samjaynz]

I've been submitting articles on ezinearticles for a few months now (I've got 130 on there and have made about $1700 in sales, so I'm pretty happy about that )

However, one thing I have never understood is the "keyword" box that appears when you submit an article. Are the keywords I type in there meant to be ones that people browsing the article directory would type in (ie "dog training" etc)

Or should I put my long-tail phrases in the keyword box?

Also, do the keywords you put in the box have any effect on where your article appears in Google?

Any advice appreciated,
Sam

[WilsonA]

I usually put the keywords I am hoping to rank well for in the search engines

[jennstall]

The keywords wind up in the meta tags for your article. I'm not sure Google pays much attention to them, but some of the other search engines might. I just use the keywords that I'm targetting in the article itself.

[Andrew Maule]

I never pay attention to this, I very carelessly enter in KW for EZA. They really are not looking at it, so says my gut and my results.