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Google Webmaster Central - keyword meta tag not used by Google

by nukemdomis | September 25, 2009 at 03:16 am

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On September 21, 2009, the Google Webmaster Central blog answered many questions when they let the world know how they view and use the keyword meta tag. This is important because hundreds of thousands of people use those meta tags and without Google using them, soon nobody will.

Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn't use) the "keywords" meta tag in ranking web search results.

At least for Google's web search results currently (September 2009), the answer is no. Google doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in our web search ranking.

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J2B (not verified)

at 05:15 on September 25th, 2009

it's been suspected for years that Google don't use keyword meta tags or description but the title meta tag remains important.

nukemdomis

at 07:35 on September 25th, 2009

Yes you are correct.

It just has a little more reinforcement when it's "official".

J2B (not verified)

at 08:30 on September 25th, 2009

you are back after missing in action for one year?

nukemdomis

at 23:56 on September 30th, 2009

Even if its been from a remote location, I've never stopped reading the news here at NowPublic. I don't want my NP account to go dormant or anything so I'm going to be contributing once per month here.

*I did look around for you and Barry's account while I was posting this story.

rahul shrivastava (not verified)

at 04:23 on September 28th, 2009

Yeah i discovered that in 2006 forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=698 nobody took me seriously that time :(

nukemdomis

at 00:18 on October 1st, 2009

Yeah I just checked it out. That was a long time ago.

Should we populate the meta keyword section with phrases like "duck porn" and "table tennis balls for blind" just to pass the time? Sounds like real trouble to me.