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Re: META Keywords-how many?

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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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Select the best top 10 keywords. Keywords count actually does not affect your seo score...backlinking is more important..
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Yes Scorring backlinks with different title text is important for google search engine to improve your ranking in google especially


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Re: META Keywords-how many?

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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)...
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Re: META Keywords-how many?

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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.
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.
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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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Re: META Keywords-how many?

A general rule for the keywords meta tag is to never use words that do not appear on the page.

None of the major search engines have used the keywords meta tag since the 1990s.
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From my experience, it is normally not very effective to have a lot of different keywords for any one webpage. Each webpage should have a single theme in order for it to get love from search engines, and that theme should be belted out in the title, meta tags, and on-page text, as well as in the anchor text of backlinks. So my opinion is 10 keywords is too many: go for 1-3 and stick to a single keyword theme for each page.

If your business has so many different keywords that are relevant to it, then you might want to consider creating a page on your site dedicated to each one, so that you can really push each one individually. That's my feeling about it.
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Re: META Keywords-how many?

there are small engines etc. that use them so the added time will pay off... just don't think it makes a huge difference... I usually just duplicate the title tag... three phrases per
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SE's keep changing their algorithms quite frequently and you never know when they will again start to give importance to keyword meta tag, My point of view is one should target 8 to 10 keywords of similar category than using them all different on one single page.
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IMHO, the major search engines are not likely to ever to use the keywords meta tag again, primarily due to the widespread abuse of this tag in the 1990s. People used to stuff literally hundreds of unrelated keywords into this tag on every page.

At one point, the most common keyword found in the keywords meta tag was the word "sex", which was said to be the word most commonly used in web searches.

The spider algorithms have become very good at determining keyword themes for web pages. The keywords meta tag was a precursor to this.
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