Google’s Matt Cutts explains a bit of the history, and makes it very clear that Google does not use the keywords meta tag in its web search rankings.  This has been the case for quite some time now, but people continue to put a lot of stock in the keyword tag when the time and energy could be better spent.  Click Here to see Matt talk about this in a Webmaster Central video.  Let us know if you have any questions or thoughts.

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