{"id":863,"date":"2011-12-13T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:36:04","slug":"quick-tips-for-onpage-seo-meta-keyword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/quick-tips-for-onpage-seo-meta-keyword\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tips for OnPage SEO Meta Keywords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta keywords are part of your onpage search engine optimisation techniques that you should build into every page as part of your <a title=\"website design process micro update\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microupdate.co.uk\/index.php\/what-we-do\/design-services\/website-design.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website design process<\/a>. Onpage SEO is an important part of ensuring that your website ranks well within the major search engines.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Please note: <strong>&#8220;Meta Keywords&#8221; tags are not so important for search engines<\/strong> &#8211; over time they have been exploited by the internet marketeers and flooded with spam keywords, hence the keywords meta details have be degraded by all the search engines. Keyword &#8220;stuffing&#8221; has now meant that the keyword aspect of your header is now pretty much unused, having said that you should note the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Meta Keywords&#8221; tags are taken in account by the search engines, not the directories.<\/li>\n<li>Use a &#8220;<a title=\"keyword and website analysis tools from micro update\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microupdate.co.uk\/free-competitor-analysis-offer.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keyword analyser<\/a>&#8221; tool to get related terms and generate a meta &#8220;keywords&#8221; tag &#8211; also use the <a title=\"Google Keyword analysis tool\" href=\"https:\/\/adwords.google.com\/o\/Targeting\/Explorer?__c=6766148735&amp;__u=9435743045&amp;__o=kt&amp;ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS#search.none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Keyword Tool<\/a> to discover some longtail keywords relating to your website content.<\/li>\n<li>HTML: &lt;meta name=&#8221;keywords&#8221; content=&#8221;word1, word2, word3,&#8230; &#8220;&gt; &#8211; try to go for a maximum of 10 words and put the <strong>most important keywords first<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Meta &#8220;Keywords&#8221; tag should be placed with all the other Meta statements as high as possible in the HTML code.<\/li>\n<li>Accentuated letters can be used in the HTML (&amp;eacute; = \u00e9).<\/li>\n<li>Try to use different orthographies (uppercase, lowercase, singular, plural, masculine, female, etc.) for keywords.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget spelling mistakes, quite often people will misspell search expressions.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Meta Keywords&#8221; tags should ideally be different in each web page, relevant to the content and the title tag plus the first &lt;h1&gt; tag on the page.<\/li>\n<li>Keywords are quite often used by third party webpage analysis tools to get an understanding about the webpage \/ site, so if nothing else, the keywords will be useful for these tools and save you a lot of time having to enter those keywords into your analysis tool!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;Quick Tips&#8221; is a series of articles with short tips and tricks for various Web Development subjects on <a title=\"Search Engine Optimisation from Micro Update\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microupdate.co.uk\/index.php\/what-we-do\/web-marketing\/search-engine-optimisation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">search engine optimisation<\/a> from Micro Update. Other subjects being covered and included with Micro Updates SEO packages are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Homepage Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Keyword Phrase Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Fixing the text links<\/li>\n<li>Image Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Keyword Research<\/li>\n<li>Header Tags Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Title Tag Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Meta Tag Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Alt Tag Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Anchor Tag Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Meta tags placement<\/li>\n<li>HTML Sitemap Creation<\/li>\n<li>XML Sitemap Creation<\/li>\n<li>Meta Tags Placements<\/li>\n<li>Suggestions on Content Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Complete Image Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Traffic Tracking Codes<\/li>\n<li>Remove Spam links<\/li>\n<li>Google Sitemap<\/li>\n<li>Optimization of textual content of your Home Page and key inner pages with keyword placement within content<\/li>\n<li>Creation of Internal Linking Network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta keywords are part of your onpage search engine optimisation techniques that you should build into every page as part of your website design process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,7,40],"tags":[310,309,226],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-tips-for-seo","category-seo","category-seo-web","tag-keywords","tag-quick-tips","tag-seo-2","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microupdate.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}