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While scanning the HTML of a page on Arqade I noticed the `meta` tag is not being used for keywords.

As far as I understand things search engines can use these meta keywords to further evaluate the relevancy of a page's contents for a given topic.

Would it make sense, then, to use the tags in a question as meta keywords for a given page? So if I have a question on stackoverflow with the `c++` and `compiler` tags, one might see the following in the HTML:

```
<meta name='keywords' content='c++,compiler'>

```

Would such a change improve search engine relevancy for SE content?

Answer: 
The meta keywords tag has zero effect on search engine rankings. That's all there is to it.
Stack Overflow often has questions being indexed and showing up in Google searches within *minutes*.

I think that says it all. They aren't important. (though I wish I could convince some of my clients of that, who insist on "keywords" on pages...)

Quite likely one of the biggest problems with 'keywords' is that they were very artificial; they did not at all represent the *actual content* on the page, which is much more useful for indexing.