Meta keywords tag is present: what it is, why it matters, and how to fix it

This page contains a meta keywords tag. Google has not used meta keywords as a ranking signal since 2009. The tag provides no SEO benefit and may reveal your keyword strategy to competitors.

The meta keywords tag is entirely ignored by Google, Bing, and most modern search engines. While it does not cause harm, it adds unnecessary code to the page and openly reveals your target keywords to anyone who views the page source, including competitors analyzing your SEO strategy.

Remove the meta keywords tag from the page. This is a low-priority cleanup task with no impact on rankings, but it reduces page size slightly and avoids exposing your keyword strategy.

This is an advisory finding: not a defect, but an opportunity flagged so you can decide deliberately rather than by accident. It belongs to the metadata family of checks.

Run a free Dr Urls audit: it crawls your site, detects meta keywords tag is present on every affected page, shows example URLs, and generates a ready-to-use fix task. Re-scan after fixing to verify the issue is gone.