No of Keywords???

Maximum how many keywords i can put on the meta keywords? Is there any limit. And the no of keywords will not be treatet as a spam. As because i want to work spam free.
Plz help me out.
Waiting for all your valuable suggestion.

Thanks
james

haven't read about the limitation of meta keywords or i just missed it...anyway IMO it is better to target atleast 5-10 major keywords for each site and about 10-15 as your minor keywords...there's a tool to check meta tags and when i used it it didn't accept more than words that was repeated more than three times...
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Millions if you wish... or none... it's totally irrelevant e.g. will never hurt, will never help.

as many as you want.

In simple words, no limit. Put as many keywords as you wish.

I would have gone by 10-15 keywords... that's sufficient. More looks spammy!

There is a rumor (myth or reality I don't know) that keywords metatag don't help, but it may hurt:
- if you repeat a word more than three time (word no keyword!!!);
- if you use keywords that don't appear in the content of the page.

...and the problem with that is?

Ii will actually help waste competitors' time when they view the source code to see why they rank so well and seeing a million keywords... "I GOT IT - YOU'LL OUTRANK YOU NOW!"

Who's fooliing who?

I agree with you. I have seen tests done on this. It doesn't help in Google, but it can hurt if overdone and words are repeated too often.

Neil

Well, the meta keywords tag though is said to be totally irrelevant, has some character limitations on to it.

It is advised not to put more than 20 keywords and 500 characters within the META KEYWORD tag.

But, most of the major search engines ignore the Keywords tag totally...but I still doubt whether stuffing would prove to be harmful

BUT
if a Google humna editor sees millions (that's a big file size btw) then you're bound to be penalised for spam.

na... it'll get lots of Google giggles but since they do absolutely nothing... that's it... tons of smiles.

i think i have a very wrong concept here.

you can't place as many keywords as you want. you must choose the important ones. it may look spamming if there are too many keywords

I would say just put your most imp keywords there and don't waste time in stuffing more words,it wont help...i believe keywords in meta tags are just for the heck of it......don't waste your time there,it doesn't help anyway....focus on developing on-page content,that will give you faaaaaar better rewards than by using KW's in meta tags.

I'm certainly not crying over the decline of the meta keywords tag. It's always been a confusing issue for site owners. Should I use commas between words in the tag or not? How many times can I repeat a word on the page without getting banned? If I don't list a term in the tag, does that mean my page won't show up? Those are common questions consistently raised over the years and represent time wasted worrying about a page element that a minority of crawlers supported -- and for those that did, an element that was assigned little if any ranking boost.

First let's recap what needs to be done before you attempt to create meta keyword tags:

• Choose your relevant keywords.
• Write the site's content based on these keywords.
• Create a title tag using the same keywords.

Once you do the above things properly, putting together your meta keyword tag is a very simple procedure.