Are meta keywords still important?

The meta keyword tag has become fairly worthless, particularly with Google, Yahoo and Bing. Other smaller search engines may still be using the meta keyword tag as an indicator of what the page is about.

Different search engine have different policy if we do SEO by only targeting Google then meta keyword is not useful and if we do SEO for yahoo and Bing it can be effective.

I have heard and read all over internet that Search engines no more prefer meta keywords thus having that or not having that donot make any big difference.

theres no harm in using them just incase. With all these new updates, it wouldnt surprise me if they threw it back into the mix

Google dose not look at Meta-Keywords (as was clearly stated by Matt Cutts). Other SE and information gathering tools might use Keywords Meta. It dosen`t "hurts" you to have them but don`t waste time on them.

I would suggest a long "all in one" keyword list that will be true for all pages on site.

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Yeah, keyword meta was important before google or yahoo and bing,too. They became pretty much useless now. I hope that helped you in a way or so.

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meta keywords are effecting over optimization and Google even doesn't read them, so they are useless now, and can harm your site if keyword density becomes high due to meta keywords

I heard they are not important for rankings, but it nevertheless helps to have them in place.

I still use them and especially for individual page keywords. I try not to have more than 10 if possible. Google ranks pages, so individual page title tags are extremely important.

I also limit pages to only 1 or 2 keywords and build additional pages as I need them for new keywords.

Don't use them. No major search engine reads them. There's no sense in adding them "just in case" - that's just making your HTML bloated and site loading time is an important factor these days.

Google and more search engine do not care meta keywords now.

Long ago major search engines started ignoring the contents in meta keywords tag as webmasters started spoiling this to manipulate the search results.

Meta keywords is not that important anymore though if you want your page/site to follow the SEO standard, you can still still use it. Besides, it won't harm your website as long as you put only relevant keywords.

However, they are not useful with Google and i am not very sure about other search engines. Google can look for the relevant keywords by looking into your websites content.

Not really. Google picks up appropriate content from your webpage and adds it to various meta tags. If you use wordpress, you may simple type in tags and description in slots provided by Meta plugins.

Meta keywords are not so important to Google and other search engines.But you should pay your full attention to Meta title and meta description.especially to Meta Title.

According to Matt Cutt...

Now, Google doesn't give any importance to meta keywords tag. So, if you are particularly working for Google, no need to use this tag

Meta tags are important of a webpage. It is a snippet of code, that gives the brief introduction about a webpage to the search engine spider and user.

metatags do not affect search engine rankings in Google. Using it or not, makes no difference, there is no harm or advantage, per say... However, i would rather choose to not use them as your competitors could easily take a look at those pages and see what your target keywords are... why give away a hard earned keyword research to your competitor for free?

meta keyword tags are only used to notify your prior keywords to search engines so they are always useful if you use them in a correct manner,sometimes they also effect the density of page.so better you have different pages for different keywords and then having different keyword tags

Meta keywords tag is no longer important for Google because webmasters have abused its usage. But, I am sure you are not optimizing your website for Google only, so you need to include them in your page for good ranking in other search engines.

They are important before. but isn't important anymore.

I think Bing (Yahoo search) still uses the meta keywords tag. However, since most traffic comes from Google they are no longer important.

Meta keyword seems don't have any value these days. Though you can use 2 or 3 keywords.

The keyword meta tag is awesome, it makes it easier to grab the competition keywords.

Yeah meta keywords will help you rank better in search engines. They will "tell" google that your meta keywords are the most important keywords for your website... That's why they should be UNIQUE for each page in your website!

While I might not be as forceful as Paul I have to agree - it is frustrating to see bad/wrong/outdated answers in the forum. I haven't recommended using meta keywords in a looooong time. I guess in theory some of the tiny minor players might look at them, but I'm willing to risk it.

it has a one percent value to it. IN the oval picture

At this time, meta tags don't have so much importance as Google does not consider keywords tag while optimizing your website.

Yes that's true that people still use keywords tag but Google does not shows keywords in search results.

I believe you should continue using meta keywords, along with the more important title and description, because should they become part of a future algorithm they are in place and ready to work for you.

META Keywords used to be all of the rage back in the day. It was a way to suggest to the search engines what your page is trying to rank for, or essentially, what your page is about. Over the years, Google and Yahoo announced that they are not paying attention to META keywords anymore, and many people stopped using them all together. However, some people still continued to use META keywords. Those who used it were mocked because they were essentially telling their competition what keywords they want to rank for, and what keywords are important to them.

However, with Bing being the new kid on the SEO block, they are now announcing that they are in fact using the META keywords to rank pages. Since Yahoo search is now powered by Bing, Yahoo search is using META keywords as well.

So if you are not using META keywords, I would suggest you start. Bing might not be a big player yet, but don't rule them out. Plus, they still have a lot of traffic, even if it is less than Google's. You still want to capitalize on that.

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Meta tags are almost useless now.
Google does not read them anymore, but some smaller Search engines do, so it is fine if you put them.

agree with seomagik

of course it is very important it is..
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Its not important anymore.