{"id":4185,"date":"2021-09-21T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adspyglass.com\/blog\/glossary-meta-keywords\/"},"modified":"2021-09-28T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:16:38","slug":"meta-keywords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adspyglass.com\/blog\/meta-keywords\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Keywords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta keywords refer to the term, widely used in SEO practices, that defines a commonly used for HTML coding specific type of meta tag, which helps a search engine to define the main topic of a page. Unlike the regular keywords, meta keywords appear in a page&rsquo;s source code and cannot be found in the content directly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The most critical point to know about the meta keywords is that they should be accurately selected to reflect the actual page&rsquo;s content. However, the meta keywords have lost their former value because of being abused by the site owners who wanted to &ldquo;game&rdquo; with Google rankings and were used for various black-hat SEO strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Though they are not as important as the Title Tags and Meta Descriptions at present, they still can be helpful for finding your audience and attracting new visitors to a site as well: it&rsquo;s still unclear whether that type of keyword was completely removed from Google&rsquo;s algorithm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The key thing to keep in mind when organizing your meta keywords is to make sure that the keywords are relevant to the page&rsquo;s title and content. 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