Comments on: Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search

By: Dizi

Dizi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:59:02 +0000

I tried it at my site. My indexed pages still good and then I add tags again, but meta title and description also very important, and maximum title must be 70 characters. Am I wrong?

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:51:07 +0000

So the purpose of keywords meta tags is what exactly? Do they have any purpose if Google aren’t paying attention to them?

By: nada

nada — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:24:57 +0000

is it true?
i believe many bloggers disappoint to hear that
so what should we do? any idea

By: Arindam

Arindam — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:26:01 +0000

I’ve gone ahead and removed all the keyword meta tags from my sites. Curiously enough, my traffic has risen by about a third! Is a meta keyword tag then now a negative indicator?

By: SEO Pirate

SEO Pirate — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:56:49 +0000

This is a great way to reduce keyword spamming and i totally agree with the decision. Most SEO agencies are now aware that Google ignores the keyword meta tag, if they dont then they really dont have their finger on the pulse of their own industry. These information videos are great to help us work with Google to clean up the web.

By: Don Crouse

Don Crouse — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:27:23 +0000

I still use keyword tags to keep track of the keuwords I am targeting for each page. I know the keyword meta tag has no impact on SEO right now. Some day they may become important again.

By: Mark Weiss

Mark Weiss — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:24:51 +0000

This is a valuable discovery, but I wish more was discussed about how to maintain ranking. For instance, my company’s site was coming about fifth place on Google last summer. During that time, we got three new clients over a 6 months span, from people who found us with a generic search for videographers.
However, in the past couple of months, I have had no new clients contact us, and inspection of our logs shows no local traffic. Nearly 95% of our web traffic is now coming from Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, France and the UK. Almost nothing from the US and nothing at all, most days, from our home state.
Needless to say, we ran the same search query in Google, that had yielded a listing on page one, and we were nowhere in sight. We didn’t come up until page five! Our ranking had slipped so far down, that no one could find us anymore.
So what’s up with that? How did we lose our ranking?

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:18:31 +0000

Good to know but I have one question still. Keyword density is commonly used as a ranking factor – does the meta keyword tag still affect keyword density on page or does it skip it?

Thank you for the clarification.

By: Gouri

Gouri — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:33:47 +0000

I had noticed this but was not sure. Thanks for confirming. However, I fail to understand the following:
When I search some exact phrase or sentence from my site (without double quotes), Yahoo & Bing show my site in the result but Google doesn’t (PR of my site is 0). In fact, most of the results Google throws up do not contain the phrase searched for.
Don’t you think Google search engine results should focus more on what a user is looking for rather than on PR? After all, that’s what search engines are meant for.

By: Creative Online Marketing

Creative Online Marketing — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:32:46 +0000

Thanks for a final word on this topic Matt. My copyrighters can now be secure in the fact that they are writing persuasive text for the SERPs only.

@ Paul Gregory: You may want to keep your targeted phrases to yourself Paul, any information that potential competitors have on you should be limited whenever possible.