Can anyone help please. Do I really need the keyphrases meta tag?? if so can repeat the same keywords contents in the keypharses tag e.g <meta name="keywords" content="car, house, property" /> <meta name="keyphrases" content="car, house, property" /> or <meta name="keywords" content="car, house, property" /> <meta name="keyphrases" content="my small car, your nice house, our big property" /> I would like to know the reason to add them to the site as I have found a bit list on the internet which is too big and I do not thing there are any need to use most of them see list <Title> </Title> <META name="description" content=" "> <META name="keywords" content=" "> <META name="abstract" content=" "> <META name="key-phrases" content=" "> <META name="topic" content=" "> <META name="subject" content=" "> <META name="classification" content=" "> <META name="distribution" content="global"> <Meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> <Meta name="language" content="en-us"> <Meta name="rating" content="general"> <Meta name="audience" content="all"> <Meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days"> <Meta name="resource-type" content="web page"> <Meta name="doc-type" content="web page"> <Meta name="doc-class" content="published"> <Meta name="doc-rights" content="public domain"> <Metaname="author"content="your site, http://www.yoursite.com"> Google only wants to see these tags <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Author: A.N. Author, Illustrator: P. Picture, Category: Books, Price: £9.24, Length: 784 pages"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="google-site-verification" CONTENT="+nxGUDJ4QpAZ5l9Bsjdi102tLVC21AIh5d1Nl23908vVuFHs34="/> <title>Example Books - high-quality used books for children</title> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow"> google source: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812 so are we just adding tags with no need for it?? I just need to know if keyphrases are important and how to use them?? Also from the above list which tags should we use?? Many Thanks
google stopped readig or caring for keywrods tag long time ago. this tag has been abused so much that it doesn;t have any importance to search engines anymore.