: Will adding 100 meta keywords to the same page hurt or help SEO? Is it possible to add several keywords to the same page? Will this penalize my page by Google? Example: What is the implication

@Michele947

Google doesn't use the keywords meta tag in web ranking for this reason. If you use many keywords it won't be helpful for SEO ranking. But it's not good idea from (September 2009), If you won't use it will be better for your site.

Search Engines judged pages only on the content of web pages & off-page SEO.

It's possible that Google could use this information in the future, but it's unlikely. Google has ignored the keywords meta tag for years and currently Google see no need to change that policy. Read more for details

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@LarsenBagley505

Is it possible to add several keywords to the same page?


Yes but It doesn't seem practical.


Will this penalize my page by Google?


Possibly (see below)


What is the implication in adding many keywords? I am expecting I get traffic from all keywords, if it is 100 or 1000000. Also I would like to know, meta-name should be keyword or...


It's actually a wonderful way to make your server slow.

The reason is because in your image example, if you start adding a whole bunch of keywords in your meta tags then its more data the browser must process before users see content. This will hurt mobile users with poor data connections (and no wifi) who are trying to connect to your website, and if your site is by chance extremely popular, its possible that hundreds of mobile users with poor connections are hitting refresh frequently because they think the page isn't working when the middle of the meta tag in the page is being downloaded to all devices at once from the same server. While upgrading the server is an option, your better option is to simply cut back on the code (including unnecessary meta tags) and show more content.

Take a look:
tools.seochat.com/tools/code-to-text-ratio/ http://smallseotools.com/code-to-text-ratio-checker/

These are URLs to services that can assess the amount of code to text on your site. It will tell you how much text of an entire page the user can see and how much is code. Try to make the percentage it reports to you high to get better ranked in search engines.

As others mentioned, take those keywords out of the tag and blend them into your actual content that people can see, but make sure the keywords become complete natural paragraphs.

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@Rivera981

Since keywords are not used anymore for referencing.
Just put the best words at the best places (h1, h2, h3, etc.. tags)

Just make sure to priorities the words.

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@Welton855

Since 2009 it is Google's official statement that they don't use the meta keywords tag for ranking purposes: webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html
They in fact even that they sometimes use it as a spam signal, especially for webmasters that enter a great number of keywords in it.

In terms of inserting keywords in a meta tag, you need a <meta name="keywords"> setup.

Long story short: don't use <meta name="keywords">.

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