Question SEO Toolkit is wrong about keywords

[josie333]

The SEO Toolkit contains an SEO Advisor and for one of my domains it declares the following as a task to complete to be regarded as more SEO friendly
------
Delete the Meta-Keywords.

Meta-Keywords used to be very important for search engines, as they were meant to help the search engine to classify the site correctly. However, in the past Meta-Keywords were also misused to rank for non-relevant keywords. At this point, no search engine supports Meta-Keywords anymore, therefore rendering them obsolete. In order to keep the source code as optimized as possible, you can neglect the input of Meta-Keywords accordingly.
------

This is completely at odds with everything else I have read and understood on the tricky subject of SEO
I would like to hear an explanation of this statement because as far as I'm concerned it is plain wrong.

 

[Monty]

I'm far from being a SEO expert but a very quick Google search came up with the following results:
The Keyword Meta Tag Is No Longer Used in 2018 - Don't Get Penalized
Does Google Value Keyword Meta Tags? - SEO Manager Knowledge Base

So short version: SEO Toolkit is right. Meta-Keywords are obsolete.

 

[Tomek]

Hi josie333

Google already ignores Meta Keywords for a vary long time

 

[Graham1989]

Even though Google no longer supports meta tags, you can still use it, but it won't be as effective as it used to be. Yes, meta tags used to be very important, but now there are much more efficient systems. If you want to promote your site, then it is worth resorting to other methods. For example, buying ads on third-party projects or improving your SEO. You can check out SEO statistics 2020 for a more detailed understanding of how your website is improving. This service helped me a lot in order to increase the traffic of my site. I hope this article will be as useful to you as it is to me. Good luck!