Meta Elements: A Field Guide - Meta Element: Keywords Attribute
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Back in the wonder years of the Internet, Ghosts of Search Engines past (i.e.; Infoseek, AltaVista, and Bob Cratchett), used the keywords attribute to help index websites. Budding search engine optimizers however, used it to to trick search engines and gain rank. It took a while, but the Ghost Engines that haunted the searchways of the Internet finally caught on and today none of the major search engines give them much, if any, consideration at all.
It is probably still good practice, however, to use the attribute, so long as you steer away from the black hat methods of keyword stuffing and trying to fool the search engine gods, because you never know when things may change. Maybe some new hot shot algorithm will pop its head up, able to determine who is faking their keyword meta-tag and who isn't, and then where will you be?
Here is an example of our buddy the keywords meta-tag:
<meta name="keywords" content="seochat, search engine optimization, tutorial"/>
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