3 Uses Of The Keywords Meta Tag
Published on May 16, 2016
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Hello folks.Contrary to popular belief the meta keyword tag is not dead but alive and kicking and still used. Even though Google does not use the keyword meta tag, many search engines still do. I personally still believe that the keyword meta tag is a good location to include words that you want indexed where those same words are not included with your content.
My best 3 examples for using the keywords meta tag are:
1. To include word and phrase replacements of words that are not included in the content of your site. People browse using many versions of phrases and words. Sometimes it is hard to include all the various variations of those words in the content of your site without making your site sound like a keywords page.
2. To place focus on certain words. It is not always easy to place your major keywords at the top of your webpage or in a<h1>tag. The major keywords might not be introduced until the middle of your web page. Making use of the keywords meta tag, you can add these keywords to notify the search engines that these words are important.
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Remember two important guidelines when using this tag: When emphasizing keywords, do not place the same keyword more than two times in the keywords meta tag. This could be considered keyword spamming and can reduce your ranking value. Also, do not place irrelevant keywords in your meta tag. Using less relevant keywords could get your site banned from many search engines.
3. One other use for the keywords meta tag is to add words from different languages. A multi-language site with one language as its default page might want to add words from all other different languages to attract people speaking languages that are different than the language of the default page.
There you go people.I use the keyword meta tag and will continue to do so.If you on the other hand want to heed the advice of anti keyword meta tag users feel free to continue doing so.
For further information you can read an article on my site and there are other links to more information there as well.
Have a great day or evening wherever you are.
Robert Allan
http://yourownecommercebusinesswebsite.com/seo-tactics/work-from-home-seo
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