XF 2.1 Why is there no meta keywords field for SEO?

[Butteroll]

There's a meta description field but no meta keywords field, is there any specific reason for that?

 

[Mr Lucky]

There's a meta description field but no meta keywords field, is there any specific reason for that?

They are not a lot of use any more

 

[Kirby]

Major search engines don't care for meta keywords (ast it is way too easy to abuse them), so it doesn't make that much sense to use them

 

[Mr Lucky]

What would make sense for SEO would be an option to edit the meta description or rel=canonical

 

[ShikiSuen]

Major search engines don't care for meta keywords (ast it is way too easy to abuse them), so it doesn't make that much sense to use them

No, this is totally a first-world self-satisfaction.

Moving the discussion to this thread:

Lack of interest - Please make SEO keyword tags directly editable through AdminCP without modding the templates.

Some people may think that it is not necessary anymore. However, this is totally a first-world self-satisfaction. Comparing the major search engines among 1st / 2nd / 3rd world countries, Google is only the most famous among first world countries (except Russia which has Yandex). For second...

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