Understanding the Keyword Meta Tag is the easiest of all the Meta Tags and here is why. DO NOT USE IT AT ALL!!! It is a Meta Tag that Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines no longer use. Google knows perfectly well what your page and post is about without putting keywords in that Meta Tag.
As long as you place your target keyword in the page/post title, in the first paragraph (the earlier the better, but not mandatory) and maybe one more time near the end of your content if 1,500+ words long, is all that Google needs to see and know what your content and target keyword is about.
As I am sure you have heard Kyle and many other people say over and over again within the training, “just place the keyword in the title and in the first paragraph and then just write naturally.” That is all Google needs because Google can get further indication from the “naturally” occurring LSI keywords that will appear within the context of your content.
BLOG POST TAGS
When we create blog posts we are given the opportunity to place a couple of tags, just like we do for the blogs and training tutorials we do here at WA. These are in essence keywords that help people to find our posts. Search engines use them the same way the WA search uses them.
In the image above I placed my two keywords that are in my post title in the blog post “Tags” section on the extreme right of the lower WordPress editor, and I added one more relevant keyword for good measure. There is no need to add any more than two or three. What the AIO does is display these within the Keyword Meta Tag, see below image.
So this is why using the All in One SEO Pack plugin is super simple. If you just follow the simple procedure of placing your keyword in the title, in the first paragraph, and if your content is a blog post – add a couple of relevant keywords in the “Tags” section on the lower right of the WordPress editor, the AIO will take care of the rest.
This is what I do for a majority of my posts. It is quick and simple. Just construct my content following the simple guidelines, add Tags if needed and FORGET about the rest because the AIO will do it all for me. Like Kyle says in his All in One training, “it will save you a ton of time.”
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- AIO plugin does a bad job here. Your meta description is truncated. I would rather design it myself.
- In fact you do not know what Google shows to me as the snippet of your post. It is not necessarily the same what you see. So it may be almost useless as you rightly say, yet I always design myself the meta description and the meta title.
- For Bing it is still understood as a good practice to add meta description, so I would not miss it.
But it is true that it is totally up to Google to show what it feels is the best snippet that provides an answer to the search query typed in by anyone. This holds true for description meta that is both not written up or manually written.
About 2 percent of the time I will manually write up my own description if I cannot make it clear enough in the first couple of sentences what my content is about. But for the most part I have been successful doing it without.
I just always remember that Google is going to change the snippet that is displayed regardless of what is written. As long as I can use a descriptive sentence with my target keyword without it being truncated, I am happy with that.
When I deleted that I had no more problems!! :)
