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How many meta keywords How I can apply? There are so many that are related to my business, but do not know how many are too. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Short answer: for modern search engines the meta keywords tag is effectively obsolete — it won’t help ranking on Google or Bing and is usually a waste of time. Google officially stopped using the keywords meta tag for web search (published Sept 21, 2009) and its Search Central docs list <meta name="keywords"> as unsupported. Google announcement. Google docs on supported meta tags.

Several replies here suggest “just use a few keywords” (, ) or move extras into the description (). That advice reflects older practice but is no longer necessary for Google/Bing — Bing’s webmaster blog likewise calls the meta‑keyword tag “dead in terms of SEO value.” Bing webmaster post. Industry tools and plugins (for example Yoast) have removed keyword-tag support for the same reason. Yoast changelog note.

A few important nuances: Yandex’s webmaster docs say the keywords tag “may be used” when assessing relevance, so include it only if optimising specifically for Yandex markets. Yandex support. Meta keywords can still be useful for internal/site search or legacy systems, but they’re visible in page source (so they reveal targeting to competitors) and carry no SEO weight for the big Western engines.

Practical checklist (priorities): remove or stop spending time on <meta name="keywords"> in templates; audit CMS output and delete the field if unused; invest effort in title tags, high‑quality page content (H1/H2), unique meta descriptions (used for snippets), structured data, image alt text and site architecture — these move the needle. For reference on which meta tags matter and how search engines treat descriptions/robots, see Google’s meta‑tags guidance. Google meta tags docs.

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Member Avatar for garyson02

for best result, you should use only 3 or 4 keywords which has high priority. if you use too many keyword in meta tag, google may neglect your website.

Member Avatar for ravinder yadav

garyson02 you are right, i also think so though, would not it be better if you can share your exprience how more keywords downgraded a sites rank.

or you can give us some link to source of information.

And raahim if there are too many key words than 3 or 4 why don't you put them in description tags.
And if web page have pictures, then use some keywords in img tag.
`<img src="" alt="some keywords>

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It should hold no more than 5 or so keywords, and the keyword selection should be different from page to page.

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Member Avatar for notASpambot

I always have 37 meta keywords. 37 is my lucky number.

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