Meta keywords and meta news keywords

[InformMedia]

I've got a question regarding this. So normally Meta keywords it is not relevant and we shouldn't use them, however there are opinions that we can use them as these are signals for other Search Engines.

Meta news keywords - are ok to be used in the news sites.

what is your opinion on using both of them on a news site? Can this help, or harm?

thanks,

Irina

[Mulith]

Hi Irina,

• Meta keywords are unlikely to cause a penaly and are simply ignored. So you can do them but it's probably a waste of time.

• news_keywords only works if you are an accepted news source in google news and it's likely that this will only effect news results. This tag was created to give journalist more freedom with their headlines so they don't have to keyword stuff the headline. It's meant to lead to a more natural looking article while still giving an option to give some keyword indication of the theme.

Hope that helps.

Mulith