Define: Keywords

Keywords: Words used by the end user at search engine sites to perform queries. Metamend's solution generates keywords for a document according to the textual content of a web site. The terms in the keywords tag, title tag, and description tag, tend to receive a higher relevance score. Generated keywords are separated by a space to allow the greatest number of different phrase combinations, not repeated, and limited to a safe character count standard.

Metamend's keywords meta tag can be used to detect problems within a document's code. Words that appear in meta tags should not be edited because they test what the spiders ignore. Any issues with the keywords meta tag should be addressed by looking at the content of the site and the source code of the document.

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