Is This Duplication In Meta Keywords?

Hey all,

When inserting the meta keyword, I find myself repeating a lot of words within phrases.

For example, let's say that I have a page about crackers. Let's say that my meta keywords that I include for this are: crackers, cracker, saltine crackers, saltine cracker, spicy crackers, spicy cracker, etc., etc.

You see? I have included the singular and plural of each, and I have included the term "cracker" in each phrase.

Is this a problem. Is this a type of duplication that may be considered as spam?

Thanks!!

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here is what i wrote in my blog

i used a free program to check SEO
its called IBP - ibusinesspromoter.com

1) Keyword tag: A keyword tag is for keywords, but not for any keywords. You can’t just stuff this tag with keywords that your entire site is related to. The tags should reflect keywords only on that particular page; not the entire site and not every keyword you think your site might be searched on. Also, you should have no more then 20 - 25 words in the tag. You should not repeat any word more than 3 times. If you sell zippos, for example, don't write: zippo lighters, zipo tricks, zippo collections, zippo history, zippo faqs and so on. Do use lighters, tricks, collections, history, faqs and so on.

but this is just my opinion and i think keywords is also a very debateable topic

 

Many SEO experts insists on not repeating any keyword with or without phrase more than 3 times. This is strategy that many search engines follows. however in case of google, it does not works because google says that it does not take into account keywords in meta tags but keyword density in the content and keywords in title tag only, in my view.
I don't know if this is accurate. I think nobody knows about this accurately.

 

Thats keyword stuffing... minimize your keywords choose different keywords according to your targeted niche...

 

I was wondering about that. Thanks!

 

I have stopped using the keyword tag altogether...any bot that matters gets them from the content anyway...all the keyword tag does is give your competition a nice, comma delimited, list of the words they know you are trying to focus on.

 

I was thinking about doing the same. I have heard that yahoo uses them, but I dunno.

 

Not that meta keywords matter anymore but I always use the plural form, google and other engines are smart enough to know that if you're targeting the plural form then the singular form also applies....I guess I still use them just out of habit

 

good suggestion.. thanks!