The significance the search engines may place on them in the future is impossible to know. It may be that like meta descriptions they become part of the display info that visitors see when your site is listed in a search engine listing.
SEO: meta keywords
January 24, 2009 - 8:46pm
meta keywords and meta descriptions
January 27, 2009 - 1:22pm
Descriptions
If they can't find what your page is about from the text, some search engines will use the meta-description for the blurb they show on the main search page. Just don't count on them being worth anything as far as getting you higher in the search results pages.
Some smaller engines may use the keywords, but I've not heard of any.
January 30, 2009 - 4:54am
SEO
I read and article a while back that Google's most recent patent for their page ranking system contains over 200 criteria they use to rank a page. I'm sure key words is one as well as a host of other traditional SEO techniques. In my opinion it can't hurt to add metadata and keywords especially if you are using a CMS like Joomla that makes it so easy to input this info from the back end.
February 4, 2009 - 8:21am
why not
agreed with shelby...why not? and if you are putting the meta tags in a common head file that you are pulling in to each page, you are only make meta tags once anyway.
It seems that a lot of thigns I read say that meta keywords aren't important so I guess my question is: why bother with them? If the spiders ignore them, what use could they be?
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