Meta Tag Keyword Stuffing?

No advantage at all. Complete waste of time and effort. Your keywords
should support the content of your pages, you can't possibly have 150
keywords in a single article... Just one or two normally.

HTH

Glenn

It may well be that most "big" websites rank well because of their age, the number of pages they have and the quality of their content and not their keywords.

There are those who will tell you that this meta tag is not even considered by some search engines because of key word stuffing in the past when it was considered a good seo tactic to use.

It is still important as a small part of your seo strategy but entering any more than 5, 6 keywords is a total waste of time and effort.

As mentioned previously, the one keyword that should be included is the primary keyword for that page.

Andrew G.

Stuffing too much keywords in the keyword tag is not a good idea, for me I would use the most 10 related keywords in it.

Hi geoffcruz,

Most major Search Engines ignore the keyword meta tag, except to penalize your page for keyword stuffing.

As a rule you should not include any words that are not part of your title, description or content. Many directories will use your keyword meta tag for review and categorization, so it may be worthwhile to leave your primary keywords in, provided they are in your page content.

Actually, google could care less what you do to your site. It's easy to get
indexed. Has nothing to with tags. Getting traffic from google, now there's
the rub. Most search engines ignore those keyword tags. They have
become almost meaningless.

Here's just a little experiment I ran. I did a search for pet shop, no
quotes. Hasbro's pet shop toy page came up first. Took a gander at
the source. Keyword meta tag was empty.

Paul

meta keywords - not needed. If used, no more than 10 keywords, 5 or fewer is better. Some SE's, notably Google ignore the meta keywords.

meta description - also not needed, but very nice to have because it will appear in the serps with you link to that page. You can tailor the description to make someone reading it want to click to find out more.

If you look at any niche that has been around for 5 plus years, chances are that at least a couple of the top 10 sites will be meta keyword stuffed. This does not mean that is why they are in the top 10. This is one of those that was then, this is now situations. Years ago keyword stuffing the the meta keywords worked. Since then the SE's wised up. Any sites left in the top 10 that are stuffed either have decent back links, good content or both.

Also in the same category of the meta keywords is the importance of H1 tags with your keywords. Doesn't matter now if that is and H-anything or simply bolded etc. If you are into making pages semantically correct then you will necessarily use H1, H2 etc to organize the relation of your content.

These days if you are going to over optimize or under optimize I feel you are better off under optimizing. Why? Because overoptimizing will likely get you dinged in the serps, today, tomorrow or the year after. As time goes by the search engines are relying less and less on "hints" put their by the webmaster, they are evolving to be able to figure out what the page is about on their own. Plus when you under optimize, you save time, which means you can make more content.