Forget About the Meta Keywords Tag

Filed as News on October 7, 2009 10:42 am

by Thord Daniel Hedengren

Search Engine Land reports that Yahoo have stopped supporting the meta keywords tag. It seems they did that months ago, which means that neither Google nor Yahoo or Bing supports it. Sounds good, let’s focus on the actual content in our search results instead…

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  1. By Chris posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:42 am
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    I think if you write something good enough, and have enough links to your site it will be found. Saying that I wasted weeks trying to figure out the meta keywords tag and when I stopped using it I started geting traffic to my blog

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  2. By Javs posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:43 am
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    Yes I agree with it. But it doesn’t mean we can just remove “meta name=keywords” line. It still plays a role in making whether it relates with the content and making it with collaborate with content can give you a better SEO. Matt cleared it in his video.

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