JLH Design

John Mueller of Google has officially stated to not worry about keywords meta tags:

Don’t bother with keyword meta tags. They are a relic and best left ignored. Why not spend your time writing more unique and compelling content for your users or improving the features on your site.

Let’s finally put this issue to bed and move on from here.

Thank you John.

For information on exactly what Meta Tags Google uses and how, here is a fine piece of documentation to read.

The one’s they list are:

<meta name="description" content="A description of the page" />
<title>The Title of the Page</title> **
<meta name="robots" content="..., ..." />
<meta name="googlebot" content="..., ..." />
<meta name="google" value="notranslate" />
<meta name="verify-v1" content="..." />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="...; charset=..." />
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="...;url=..." />

** Yes, I know it’s not a meta tag.