The Role Meta Keywords Play in Search Engine Ranking

The Meta keyword is one of the least important Meta tag yet it play an important role in the search result ranking. It does not have more importance than the Meta title, or Meta description. The purpose of using the Meta keywords is to let the search engine knows the topic of the content. The search engine must know what the page is about before it can arrange it in the search result.

The Meta keywords should not be used as a way to spam the search engine. Some people will try to include a long list of keywords in the Meta keywords. They want to include a long list of keywords because they want to rank for those keywords. The keywords in the Meta keywords are not used by the search engine to rank a website. The search engine never based the search engine ranking on the Meta keywords so it is useless to include a long list of keywords. If you include too many keywords, your site will get penalized by the search engine. The search engine particularly pay attention to websites that try to manipulate it. When it detect that you are using a long list of Meta keywords, it knows that you are trying to use a black hat SEO method.

The search engine company make it a rule that any website that try to manipulate the search result will be penalized. The purpose of penalizing a website is to let the webmaster realize that he or she is wrong so that the same mistake won’t be repeated. Spamming the Meta keywords usually don’t get serious penalization from the search engine. However, it is best to avoid it because the search engine may change the algorithm and incur serious penalty.

The keywords which you include in the Meta keywords must be relevant to the content which you are providing. If it is not relevant, it is also counted as spamming. You should avoid including common words such as for, to and etc in the Meta keywords.

Besides, the Meta keywords, there is the Meta description and Meta title. Both the Meta description and title appear in the search result. The Meta title must be short and concise. The keyword should be strategically included in the Meta title and description. The keywords should repeat at least 2 – 3 times in the Meta title and description. Repeating the keywords too many times will caused your website to be flagged as spam. Keyword stuffing and is not recommended because it can cause you to be blacklisted. Keyword stuffing is a black hat SEO method and will be penalized by the search engine. In the past, keyword stuffing is tolerated. After the new algorithm is introduced, keyword stuffing is not allowed anymore. It is a way to deceive the search engine robot that the page is highly relevant with the queried terms because it contain a lot of keywords. If you use a lot of keywords in the Meta description, you will find that your page rank at the bottom of the search result.

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