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: Do not use the meta keywords tag. Many people still think of this as a quick fix for SEO. It's not, It only benefits your competition!! how so? well back then search engines used to rely on Meta Keywords to guess which keywords were relevant to a webpage , now the search engines are sophisticated enought to examine the keywords in the body of a webpage.
by placing Meta Tags on a page your giving your competitor a list of important keywords.can then use these keywords and buy PPC ads or optimize their own site for your important keywords. Why give them this sort of business intelligence? Having invested time and money on exhaustive keyword research to identify the important keyword phrases to use for your own SEO and PPC efforts, why on earth would you make a list of your high value keywords public?
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why on earth would you make a list of your high value keywords public
It doesn't take an intelligence level much above idiot to determine what the major keywords are just by viewing any site. There are search engines that still utilize the keywords meta tag to help them discern what your page is about. One of them is in the top three.
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It doesn't take an intelligence level much above idiot to determine what the major keywords are just by viewing any site. There are search engines that still utilize the keywords meta tag to help them discern what your page is about. One of them is in the top three.
Ya, that's right but more than that too. Even Google takes into consideration what the web designer wants the search engine to think are the important keywords. The keywords meta tag is a search engine tag. The search engine created it and still use it. To not provide the search engine with such a valuable indicator is like going fishing in a canoe without an extra paddle (in case you lose one in the rapids).
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Meta tags is still one of the good factors in optimizing a site. that is my opinion.
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Meta tags were originally designed to provide webmasters with a way to help search engines know what their site was about. But the present scenario of growing competition, webmasters started manipulating this tool through spamming of keywords. Due to this search engine creators placed less importance on them. Thus meta keywords tag and meta description tags are not the main factor for search engines to consider when ranking sites. But it is advisable not be left off the page.
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: Do not use the meta keywords tag. Many people still think of this as a quick fix for SEO. It's not, It only benefits your competition!! how so? well back then search engines used to rely on Meta Keywords to guess which keywords were relevant to a webpage , now the search engines are sophisticated enought to examine the keywords in the body of a webpage.
by placing Meta Tags on a page your giving your competitor a list of important keywords.can then use these keywords and buy PPC ads or optimize their own site for your important keywords. Why give them this sort of business intelligence? Having invested time and money on exhaustive keyword research to identify the important keyword phrases to use for your own SEO and PPC efforts, why on earth would you make a list of your high value keywords public?
I disagree. I have experiemented with some pages by not having any keywords while keyword stuffing on the other, and the one with multiple keywords gets more traffice.

Also, Google Adwords has a keyword tool which tells you the number of global searches for a particular keyword per month. If competition is smart, then they are using this just like we are. If not, I just made them smarter by telling them.
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: Do not use the meta keywords tag. Many people still think of this as a quick fix for SEO. It's not, It only benefits your competition!! how so?
Couple of weeks ago, I read on SEOMoz blog that yahoo still gives little bit important to meta keyword tag.
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Google knows what's your site all about because of meta tags..
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Meta tags is still one of the good factors in optimizing a site. that is my opinion.
Yeah I think so, just not as important as before.
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: Do not use the meta keywords tag. Many people still think of this as a quick fix for SEO. It's not, It only benefits your competition!! how so? well back then search engines used to rely on Meta Keywords to guess which keywords were relevant to a webpage , now the search engines are sophisticated enought to examine the keywords in the body of a webpage.
by placing Meta Tags on a page your giving your competitor a list of important keywords.can then use these keywords and buy PPC ads or optimize their own site for your important keywords. Why give them this sort of business intelligence? Having invested time and money on exhaustive keyword research to identify the important keyword phrases to use for your own SEO and PPC efforts, why on earth would you make a list of your high value keywords public?
Careful handling of Meta Tag Optimization can get you good Ranking Results though using Meta Tags, however, does not provide a guarantee that your website page would rank highly in the search engine rankings due to the rampant abuse and manipulation of the Meta keywords Tag by webmasters, most search engines don't support it anymore.
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