The keyword meta tag was created before the advancement of ranking algorithms to give an indication to search engines what individual web pages are about. However after the tag was abused and stuffed with keywords to influence rankings, the tag was extremely devalued to avoid spam sites being highly ranked.
Many SEOs that are stuck in the 80′s still believe in the secret powers of the keyword meta tag, everyone loves competing against these 80′s SEO renagades because it has no pull on rankings at in Google. Please watch the video below to get the news from the Google Webmaster Team.
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