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Meta Keywords tag needed?
Rugg
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June 2012
Howdy all,
Just wondering if the Meta Keywords tag is actually needed and if search engines base any results according to the tag.
Thanks
SgtLegend
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June 2012
Meta keywords are optional for Google but for search engines such as Bing and Yahoo they can be very useful depending on how relevant they are to keywords in your sites copy.
Rugg
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June 2012
Great...Thank you
chriscoyier
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June 2012
keywords = no
description = yes, will probably be the description on SERPS
author = probably yes, see
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/
But there is a bunch more meta tags that have importance. Check out a couple in the HTML5 Boilerplate index file:
https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index.html
Rugg
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August 2012
Awesome…thanks for the resources Chris
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Just wondering if the Meta Keywords tag is actually needed and if search engines base any results according to the tag.
Thanks
description = yes, will probably be the description on SERPS
author = probably yes, see http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/
But there is a bunch more meta tags that have importance. Check out a couple in the HTML5 Boilerplate index file: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/index.html