Using meta keywords for Comparison Shopping Sites - Buy.com, TheFind.com, Shopzilla

[tennisexpress]

We are thinking about using our meta keywords field to feed to shopping networks like The Find, Shopzilla, Buy.com, etc. These networks want you to provide them with as many keywords as possible to show up in their internal search results. If we feed them our meta keywords field we could have 20 to 25 keywords for each product (tennis equipment). Would this be a bad or good thing for SEO?

[NerdsOnCall]

Well, you kind of have to weigh your options. The dangers of using meta keywords is that your competitors can read them and, and then they will know how to compete with you. You are basically giving away some of your proprietary information.

Now having said that, there are still people who use meta keywords. Read this article. You basically just have to deiced if you getting your products placed on buy.com is going to make you enough money to be worth it.

Sorry, I know I didn't give you a yes/no answer, but hopeful you have enough information to make an educated decision.

-Bryant Jaquez