<b>"Don't forget your meta keywords tag."</b>

<b>"Don't forget your meta keywords tag."</b>

Delete it.

Google announced in <b>2009</b> — seventeen years ago — that it ignores the meta keywords tag entirely for ranking. Bing treats it, at best, as a possible spam signal. There is no major search engine on Earth that rewards it.

Worse than useless, it's a courtesy to competitors. Anyone can view-source your page and read your entire target keyword list, handed over for free. You're publishing your strategy in the HTML.

Yet I still audit sites in 2026 that have a plugin dutifully generating <code>&lt;meta name="keywords"&gt;</code> on every page, and a content team that thinks filling it in is "doing SEO."

If it's there, it's doing one of two things: nothing, or quietly informing your rivals. Remove it from the template. That's the whole task.

(If a 2026 SEO plugin still ships this field prominently, ask what else it thinks is 2009.)