Why do crawlers still track meta keywords if it is not needed in my site?
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I have crawled three sites already and it returns more than 5000 errors most of which are MIssing Meta Keywords tags. The sites are on Wordpress and using my SEO plugin I can easily edit the meta keywords of each page, but I am having second thoughts. Well should I?
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Yes thank you they are all filled in
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Oh it was just a warning, my bad. What is SCO?
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Please forgive any grammar or strange word errors I'm using my smart phone to dictate this.
The reason that the crawler gives you statistics on keywords is because it is a bot and if you can imagine like Pac-Man it follows a track of code. It's going to continue and give you as much information as possible. Some people like to use keywords for reasons that I cannot think of maybe to throw off the competitor and it is better to have more information then less information my opinion that is the reason. I don't recall it ever being called an error. However I will check considering I no keyword tags and I have no errors regarding anything like that. Although I will doublecheck for you. I believe that you might want to doublecheck those errors and make sure that they're actually calling for an error because of the keyword tag and not just letting you know the Notework of the keyword tag or what information. The reason that SCO plug-ins for the reason that the Seo plug-ins for WordPress use them is because it's thought of as a staple of SCO and they would be considered probably by the general public is a bad plug-in they didn't have keywords they don't want to upset those that don't understand. Total guess that's just my thoughts. However WordPress SEO by Yoast if you look at that it advises you not to you use keyword tags. Or I believe it says you can enable them but I don't know why you'd ever want to use them. I hope I've answered your question please let me know if I can be of more help sincerely,
Thomas
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Meta Keyword Tags I would totally ignore, of no help or relevance really.
I would insure your meta descriptions are all filled in correctly though as Google will sometimes use these in the results as snippets under your URL
Regards
John
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