Yahoo announced at the SMX East conference yesterday that they were no longer using meta keywords. In the report Yahoo stated that they had announced this earlier in the year – but apparently no one outside Yahoo got the memo. While none of the major engines now support meta keywords, I still recommend using topic and category specific keywords in all your pages. There are a lot of spiders crawling the web that still use this information to categorize your content and can result in back-links to your site.
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Well… seesm like the Yahoo rep was (ahem) wrong. Yahoo does still use meta keywords. Danny Sullivan has more here:
Sorry, Yahoo, You DO Index The Meta Keywords Tag