Many supposed SEO experts claim that meta keywords tag is no longer an important or needed meta tag but I disagree. The importance of the keywords meta tags is way less than it once was but it is still a metric used by some online directory and search engine crawlers look at (even if they say the don't).

The best advice for the meta keywords tag is to insert one and that will is the main keyword phrase you are targeting the web page for. Of course the main keyword phrase should be used in several other places as well including:

  • The page title.
  • The name of the web page or blog post.
  • A couple of your h2 and/or h3 tags.
  • If you are using Wordpress, as the tag for the page ...