Do you use "keywords" meta in your site, knowing that Google does not use them (and has no plans) in page ranking, and perhaps even search?
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Yes you do; Google is not the only search engine in the web although its has the major market share. There are other engines including Yahoo which use the Keywords META to some extent.
DRL
2010-07-06 22:12:04
I agree. But always keep in mind that, IMHO, good (structured) content is the most important thing regarding SEO.
Marcel Korpel
2010-07-06 22:14:39
Absolutely, and any meta keywords should reflect the well structured content of that particular page.
DRL
2010-07-06 22:16:37
Google has 85% of the search engines market. So, what other SE uses keywords?
serhio
2010-07-07 11:16:19
As mentioned above; Yahoo (8-10% MS) still assign some ranking importance to meta keywords; you can even test it yourself as per this blog http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/index.php/meta-keywords/In addition to this (and the other answers on this question); we have no idea what search engines are going to start doing in the future, regardless of what they might say today.
DRL
2010-07-07 11:58:20
Maybe other SEs use meta keywords, but they put so little emphasis on it, it's not worth your time adding keywords for every page.
DisgruntledGoat
2010-07-07 15:13:42
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Yes, we do. No one knows the exact Google (or any other search engine) algorithm.
In addition, lots of companies use "keywords" for internal websites that host tons of Html generated content.
Kris Krause
2010-07-06 22:14:03
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That is NOT a reason to abandon keywords altogether.
They are still indexed and searchable, and so still have a function.
Ed B
2010-07-06 22:18:01
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I did, because I didn't know that fact. Now I am thinking that is not worth doing so insignificant I see the "energy conversion efficiency", even if we don't take Google in consideration, other SE seems do not take much attention to it...
serhio
2010-07-07 15:54:05
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I've heard from so many people that Google doesn't use meta keywords, I'm not sure I'm convinced of that however. But, whether they do or they don't you should still use them because Bing and Yahoo (the other 2/3 or the big 3) still do use them. But remember to limit your keywords because (based on popular opinion) none of the 3 engines read past character 46.
s_broderick
2010-07-15 01:03:55
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No. I don't want competitors knowing what I am trying to rank for. Keywords are very valuable in some markets. If you found a good keyword phrase that is converting well (and your competitors don't know about it) do yourself a favor, and keep a monopoly on it.
Matt
2010-07-15 01:35:31