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**Junior.Wicked** · 11-19-2008, 09:22 PM

I was going through my blog files aka
header.php and such
and I dont know where to put
the meta keywords at??

I think its not even included..
so how do i add it and what file
do i add it to?

**chrishirst** · 11-20-2008, 04:09 AM

line 26

**Mark_anderson** · 11-20-2008, 04:14 AM

watch it below:

<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="put your kewords here">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="" />
<meta name="robots" content="" />
</head>

**Rotco88** · 11-20-2008, 08:28 AM

Junior, you always put your meta keywords between <head> and </head>

so it's true what Mark showed you. but if you already have a <head> then just copy this code:

<meta name="keywords" content="put your kewords here">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="" />
<meta name="robots" content="" />

and put it between <head> and </head> as I told you

**freeware101** · 11-20-2008, 09:58 AM

its a SEO job... give it to the experts! hehehe

**LadynRed** · 11-20-2008, 03:18 PM

Don't even bother with it. NONE of the major search engines pay any attention to the meta keywords any more. It's a waste of time.

**wayfarer07** · 04:01 PM

Just for fun, you should add them with javascript:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
var meta = document.createElement('meta');
meta.name="keywords";
meta.content="Google, won't, see, this, anyway, so, let's, put, it, in, with, JavaScript, so, we, can, pretend, we're, smarter, than, we, are";
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(meta);
</script>

Might as well, as it makes about as much sense as the normal way of doing things.

**LadynRed** · 11-20-2008, 03:38 PM

too funny !

**witnesstheday** · 05:52 AM

Meta tags can be VERY useful to a wise marketing expert. When someone finds my pages on search engines and other people who may have listed my site robotically, they get the title, from the title tag, sure enough, but they also get the description from the meta tag. The description is shown as the default listing for that page. This may not seem that important with Google, who are after all going to scan inside the page and show a match more than likely from there, along with a bespoke description taken from around the area/s of the match.

Nonetheless it shouldn't be overlooked. And it's definitely bad form to just ignore them. What IS stupid is to think that meta tags and keywords can make any difference to your keyword potency, etc. But it's still good SEO - it helps provide an optimum description on the search results page etc, and even if it is redundant the majority of the time, well the ones you are excluding could happen, by luck, to be the woman buying the 2000 dollar jewellery item or something.

**wayfarer07** · 11-22-2008, 08:30 AM

Yes, but we're talking about the meta keywords tag, not the description tag here. The keywords tag has zero effect, and does not appear in the search results.

**witnesstheday** · 11-24-2008, 11:34 AM

fair point. i stand (no in fact i sit) corrected

**informixx** · 11-25-2008, 12:17 PM

Lots of good people here!
Mete Keywords really help bots in searching the content of your site..
just commenting.. LOL

**wayfarer07** · 11-25-2008, 12:47 PM

The content of your site helps bots search the content of your site.

**alysha** · 11-27-2008, 07:52 PM

meta keywords is not anymore important in SEO

**strauss** · 12-01-2008, 12:26 AM

Meta keyword tag gives the exact and clear scenario of web page to the search Engine.

**witnesstheday** · 01-07-2009, 03:57 PM

There is one definite use of meta keywords: on google adwords if you put the keywords you want to buy as meta keywords on the page, you will get a lower bid frequently.

**AD7863** · 01-08-2009, 03:34 PM

If you do use Meta Keywords I read somewhere that you should stick to around 25 and you shouldnt go overboard with them? lol

**marc180** · 01-09-2009, 12:06 AM

between the head tags, you can put it before or after the title tags.
Good Luck

**scriptbazaar** · 01-11-2009, 06:52 AM

Meta Keywords of no use these days but how can search engines find the relevant keyword for the page ? i know it checks for the page's content even though what about the person who is targeting some keyword?

**chrishirst** · 01-11-2009, 07:45 AM

Search engines don't CARE what YOU think the "relevant keyword" is for a page. They show the page for what their algorithm determines what word/phrase it is relevant for.

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