Keywords meta tag: Useful or time waster?

Question

I always put meta keywords on my sites pages. But I have heard rumors that you do not have to do this. Should I continue putting keywords on my pages or is it just a waste o

Answer 1

This article says, that Google resigned from using META keywords many years ago due to the fact that they are easily abused.

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Our web search (the well-known search at Google.com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword metatags completely. They simply don't have any effect in our search ranking at present.