How much importance of meta keywords is there for google and other search engines ?? I heard that google did'nt give much preference for meta keywords..then if you are targetting for only googel search engine then we can remove meta keywords - yes or no please do reply ??? and what is the advantages and disadvantages for using meta keywords ?
Disadvantages: Wasted time and effort Advantages: None Meta keywords were a hit years ago before search engines got fed up with keyword stuffing and the abuse. I never use them and it doesn't hurt my ranking one bit. I get my info from SEO.com and the 100s of other sources that have been saying the same thing for the past 10 years.
The only thing that counts now a days is the meta title tag, but people still use meta keywords and meta description tag which by the way still is important too.
Google not ignoring meta keywords but give less importance but Google also check your keywords density and if you are using meta keywords then i think it's beneficial for your website.
by adding a meta keywords on the template we will definitely be able to target for search engines Google
Yes google is ignoring meta keywords. However, there is no harm in putting meta keywords/description because it will serve as a snippet copy for your web visitors. This might make or break their action to visit your site.
Maybe the only advantage to adding meta keywords is to save you the time of coming up with keywords every time to enter your in into a directory or a script that just grabs them.
Exactly. In terms of being found, google doesn't use them. however, if you put them in they don't hurt you and can help you with future on site optimization. Think of it more as a place to store your keywords to remind you what to optimize for rather than believing that they actually do something for your rankings.
Meta keywords are very important as they help you rank If you think about it, not that many people put that in so that gives you an advantage
I'm a little surprised we're still having this conversation in 2011. Like, one of the first things I learned about SEO years ago was that meta-keywords won't do anything significant for your rankings. Sure, add the keywords attribute just for the heck of it (like Captaim said, just a place to "store" keywords for when you need to grab a list of them to save time.) but it won't do anything significant for your rankings. In my mind, it's no longer really debatable.
Meta keywords were a hit years ago before search engines got fed up with keyword stuffing and the abuse.
Many folks have confusion in this i.e. what is more important from meta keyword, Title and description. Let me clear it as per my knowledge concern to this. As per me all are important and there is no harm in putting all these on our site. As search engine gives more importance to meta title and sometimes description also but it doesn't mean that it completely ignore meta keyword, it gives importance to this also but less as compare to Title and Description. Now for what purpose we use meta keyword and description too? And the answer is for the "Visitors". Yes, form the view point of visitors meta keyword and description too plays an important role as it say that what our site is "About". By viewing this only on our site visitors get whole idea of our site. Thus due to this reasons we put it on our site. Finally there is no harm in putting All these 3 things i.e. Meta title, keyword, description in our site. It gives only and only benefits to Us and also to Visitors. Yes only one things you need to take care most while putting meta keyword i.e. Keyword Density. If this will exceed then it call stuffing and then it proves harmful for our site.
Meta keywords its really important for our website for the reason that without Title and Description visitors confused what is site about !!!!
Less and less important of meta keywords prospective Google and meta description is display in search engine result page so it should be related to our products and services.
Meta Keywords, in fact, was very important to the earlier time of the Google search engine as they hold the keywords of the webpage and it was easier to Google to crawl the page. However, this has become less important this days. you can remove it too.
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Long ago in Internet time, the meta keywords tag was very useful in helping pages to win on search engines. Unfortunately, so many unscrupulous webmasters have abused the meta keywords tag that search engines have had to de-emphasize their importance. Still, you should not leave the meta keywords tag off your pages.