In short, Google Search still does not use the keyword meta tag for ranking purposes. Google does not look at the words in your keyword meta tag for search purposes.

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Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about how Googlebot responds to a pre-render meta tag that has the value of 404 page not found. It’s a good question because this is the kind of meta ...