Major Search Engines Ignore the Keywords META tag.
For years, I've been using a few online tools to analyze my web pages to check for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I've always suspected that page content was more important than anything you could ever place in the META tags, but today I was sent an article that put my suspicion to rest. On the Google Webmaster Central Blog there's an article from September 21st, 2009 titled "Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking".