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Are meta tag keywords still relevant; how many?

by livemusic
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Are we still supposed to put meta tags in pages? How many meta tag keywords are acceptable? If you have a large one-page site, could you have, say, 20 phrases? Speaking of that, are you supposed to put them in key phrases, or separate each word in the meta tag with a comma? All this stuff changes!
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  • Profile picture of the author seekdefo
    Meta tags in pages may not be that important but a meta tag for your site is quite important for quick indexing into the relevant category and keywords
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Don't use meta keyword tags, all it's doing is telling your competition your target keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mark Bradley
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Don't use meta keyword tags, all it's doing is telling your competition your target keywords.
      Can't they just rip your KW's from your source code?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheContentAuthority
    Livemusic,

    Google has not used this tag as a ranking factor for some time but that doesn’t mean that other search engines don’t. If you do decide to use it, make sure you only place relevant terms to the page in there and nothing else. I don’t think you will notice any changes whether you use it or not.

    Here is an interesting writeup on them,

    Google Wants You To Use Keyword Metatags... No, Really - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)

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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by TheContentAuthority View Post

      Livemusic,

      Google has not used this tag as a ranking factor for some time but that doesn't mean that other search engines don't[/url]
      Well there's really only one. Maybe two, but that #2 does not use it either.

      Originally Posted by Hansons View Post

      I would like to tell that don't give much emphasis on meta data today but you must use them in the way you were using before...

      If it doesn't fit to Google, Google would show from the content.
      Man, you are the most worthless person here, and that's saying a lot.

      No way can you be human. Meta data....man that is rich.

      Google does not care if you have zero meta tags.

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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    I would like to tell that don't give much emphasis on meta data today but you must use them in the way you were using before...

    If it doesn't fit to Google, Google would show from the content.
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  • Profile picture of the author ppcmanager
    Use Title & Description tags, you can leave out Keyword tag
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  • Profile picture of the author pdev988
    Limit each page to 10 keywords or key phrases. Find Valuable Keywords from page content for each page.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Keyword meta tag is NOT so important like Title and Description (because they BOTH take part in SEO), keywords .. use them maybe to "inform" some Search Engines what keywords are you trying to rank up!
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  • Profile picture of the author rakesh1600193
    These days meta tags are very important , Always use meta keywords tags, When you do seo you just do not rank for keyword you doing seo but for the keywords added in met tags.
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  • Profile picture of the author rileyallard
    Now Google doesn't consider meta keywords. Create a title tag & meta description by using your targeted keywords.
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