Meta Keywords

[TP_Marketing]

Hello!

Just wondering what opinions others have on Meta Keywords? Ive read in the past here on Seomoz that they are irrelevant now to search engines. I do see some of our Large competitors still using them. When I use the SEO page tool to check out pages for optimization it recommends that we remove them? This is something that I have been doing for a few months now but am second guessing myself now. Should I continue to leave them out of current page structure?

Thank You!!!!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

They are not taken into SEO consideration so you will never benefit from having them.

The negatives to having them is that competitors have easy access to all your keyword research, saving them work and letting them compete with you more easily.

So I agree with the SEO page tool - do remove meta keywords from your pages.

[TP_Marketing]

Thank You Very Much!!!!!

[edwardrj]

Correct. The only way Google uses the meta keyword tag is in site search:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/

[Personnel_Concept]

yes there is no use of adding keywords in meta keywords tag. And Oleg made a good point, its easy access for competitors to see your keywords!

[Personnel_Concept]

No worries!