how many meta tags?

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hi.
im wondering about how many meta tag keyword is optimal and how to do the best keyword research??

many thanks!
#search engine optimization #meta #tags
  • The Keyword Meta Tag is totally and completely useless. The only value you will get in filling out the tag is that competing SEO's ( like us ) will love you for it because then we can just look at your source code to see what keywords your targeting.

    I'm sure there are some good WSOs and posts about doing keyword research here on the forums but I don't have any recommendations. I'm sure someone will point you in the right direction shortly.
  • Not that it matters these days but I personally use 1-3 keywords in the meta tags and let the search engines gather the rest.

  • He's right you know. Meta keywords are not only useless but actually slightly damaging in giving your competitors a glance at your completed keyword research.
    You may still want to keep a nice META description tag though.

    As for keyword research. You can use free keyword tools like those provided by:
    SEObook,
    Microsoft Adcenter Labs,
    Google Adwords Keyword Checker,
    SEO quake (recommend the firefox extension!)

    Purchasing Market Samurai is a very wise $100 investment.
  • It does matter. From my results Yahoo still does have impact with meta tags.... not sure with the merge with bing.

    but 5 - 6 is good!
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    • I understand that you only mean to help, but this is not true.

      This meta element is, simply put, a relic of the past.
      What happened was that people started abusing it and "stuffing" a great many keywords into the element.

      As of 7 years ago, Yahoo Slurp & Inktomi also do not use the meta keywords tag at all.
      Google stopped using it over 10 years ago.
      None of the smaller crawlers use it either.

      At the end of the day, this tag just lets your competitors know which keywords you're targeting.
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