What are meta keywords?

Meta keywords are an old HTML tag for listing a page’s keywords. Google said in 2009 it doesn’t use the tag in web ranking. On October 11, 2026, four Quora threads ranked in the top 10 for this search. This page leaves the tag out.

Sources: Google Search Central (2009); Google US results, October 11, 2026.

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