Google drops support for the Meta News Keyword tag


Last October Google quietly stopped supporting the meta news keyword tag. Apparently nobody noticed until just this last month.

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Introduced in 2012 specifically for news publishers, it was intended to help Google understand the publisher's content. There are probably more than a few writers who've been laboring daily over what keywords to put in that specially-made-for-them meta tag. Chances are good though, they quit using it because it didn't catch on with a significant part of the publishing niche. But only Google knows for sure.

Anyway, if you're still using it, you can stop now.SEN article end

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