About how many META keywords should you use? There are so many that relate to my business but I don't know how many is too many. Advice would be appreciated.
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There is no set number since the search engines don't use that meta tag to rank sites. Put as many as you feel you need and put them in order of importance.

Agree, but some SEs still consider this meta thing...Focus more on contents and link build (gather more IBLs)...

A little history/reality check ...

Meta tags are used exclusively by search engines. The original major search engines (that's back in 1994/95) created them and the newer search engines, including Google, adopted the legitimacy of Meta data.

The major search engines read all meta tags. As a matter of fact, they read every single line of code that they can find within a web page in their effort to determine what the web page is all about and if the content is important enough to rank highly amongst other web pages of similar content.

The Meta Keyword Tag is always considered by the search engines.

Until the major search engines themselves declare Meta tags obsolete, it is most wise to keep using them as they provide additional indicators as to what the web page is all about and what the search engines should rank for.

Hello canadafred,


I agree with you excellent post you have done yes still some search engine meta keywords also considered to what the web page all about and how it's different from the similar web page and where to rank them in search engine for this purpose they play an important role for search engine's as my view also


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mallikarjun
www.directorywala.com

I limit myself to 10, don't put to much effort here, you can spend your time elsewhere and get more trafic. Good content is the key.

I think you can find the top 10-15, but I agree with stymiee, definitly put them in order of importance.

But it definitly is going to take more than keywords. Dont forget other important site elements when building your site!

meta keywords can be limit to 10 - 12 keywords ther must not be more repeation of same phrase in one certain line then it will good but most of search egnine are ignoring meta tag they onely take description's

IMO 8-10 keywords are fine. It should be a good combination of the important, less and more competitive keywords.You can't take all 10 keywords which are highly competitive.

well, I don't consider the "keyword" tag in META tags placement.

But yes, description tag would be useful and even shows it in website rankings.

Still, if you want to use the keyword tag; then place your most targeted keywords used for the web page.