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That is an excellent question.  One which is asked (and debated) as often by experienced SEOs and Web designers as it is by people new to the industry.

The keywords meta-tag  was created when the web was young to help site designers let engines know what a Web site was all about, and it worked well.  Too well.  Early SEOs started abusing the system by stuffing them with popular search terms that were not at all related to the current page to drive up rankings and page views.  The search engineers figured this out pretty quickly and either decreased the importance of the tag, or ignored it completely. more…