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Meta Keywords Tag Might Not be as Useless as We Thought it to be

Almost all searMeta Keywords Tag Might Not be as Useless as We Thought it to bech engine optimization experts would agree that the Meta Keywords tag was one of the most overrated and useless search engine optimization tactic of the last decade. This tag has continued to remain an absolutely useless memento of a bygone era in search engine optimization when over stuffing of keywords was the followed standard.

Nowadays, people do not even include it in their pages anymore, and for good reason. Meta Keywords tag has proven itself useless, time and again. However, there is new evidence that suggests that Google may
not be ignoring this element completely, as most of us believed. A recent forum thread on High Ranking Forum has discovered Google using the keywords in the Meta Keywords tag for filling out internal site search boxes.

As per Jill Whalen, she has caught Google filling out her internal forum site search boxes with keyword phrases that were contained in the Meta Keywords tag. According to what she describes, Google “pulled the entire string of keywords (commas and all) and used that string of words in the internal site search”. These search terms then generated search engine result pages which get crawled by Google and then show up in the index.

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