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Thread ID: 148527 2020-02-02 21:15:00 KeyWords Are they still a thing? Digby (677) Press F1
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1466411 2020-02-02 21:15:00 hello
Is it still good practice to put some key words in your meta tags?
Does Google still look for them.
Digby (677)
1466412 2020-02-03 01:09:00 Yes, they are a good idea and good practice and yes Google as well as other search engines still use them for indexing purposes. chiefnz (545)
1466413 2020-02-04 09:42:00 But Google no longer uses meta keywords for ranking signal, unless if quality content matches those keywords. I recall one of their chief SEO engineers bought out a video talking about it. SEO Pro Yoast describes it's value (yoast.com) - or lack of it today.

A newer concept called structured data (yoast.com) became available, to code in your website to provide "rich snippets (yoast.com)" iin search results.
kahawai chaser (3545)
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