META Keywords: Help, Hurt, or Irrelevant to SEO Success
Q: Can you send us a keyword worksheet filled out, so we can use as an example to fill out? Q: For quick fixes, do meta keywords help?
Answer:
Question #2, first. The META KEYWORDS tag is IGNORED by Google and Bing. Both have officially announced (many years back as it were) that they IGNORE it. So the ONLY META TAGS that matter are:
- TITLE tag: VERY important to SEO!
- META DESCRIPTION: becomes your description on Google 90% of the time if you include keywords in it.
All other meta tags: zero, zilch, nada. I use the META KEYWORDS tag as a note to myself – what am I targeting for this page? Bu tno real SEO value.Question #2 – Building a keyword worksheet.Here is a video on this –
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