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Twilight zone. I stopped adding keywords tags to websites about a decade ago when I learned search engines did not use them anymore.
by tybris 17y ago
Twilight zone. I stopped adding keywords tags to websites about a decade ago when I learned search engines did not use them anymore.
- aw3c2 17y agoSame here, it was way too much work and then the search engines only cared about keyword dropping in urls and popularity.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI've understood that Yahoo/Ask still use keywords in that meta-tag (don't know about Baidu &c.). Also I find it useful to list in the keywords field the [genuine] keywords for a page/article. Local search can use this info, you presumably know if you're spamming your own search results (!) and I can use it if I'm trying to target advertising or am working on link building. Lastly Google (Cutts) intimates the possibility it could be used in the future. They did a turnaround on nofollow, so why not on this. They'd need to have a very restrictive policy for sure. I could see them using something like "words must appear from the top 10 words used by density in the article"* - then they could spot check the keywords meet the standard and provide something like increased crawl frequency on websites meeting the policy. Continued failure could have your PR zeroed; then the keywords would simply be a way for Google to reduce processing (* or whatever algo is useful, they could even provide a tool to pre-process pages and give a keyword relevancy rank).