Question by hooptie_hoo: What if I duplicate the Meta Keywords tag?
So I work for an online Medical Supply company. We sell everything from Medical tape to Hospital Bed Packages. Our static pages (pages ending in “.html”) are generated and refreshed every 48 to 72 hours. We use a PERL script that pulls all of the data in from the online database. Well, it looks like the guy who wrote the script pulled the Keywords tag in twice. Other than being really ugly HTML, it there any real SEO problem with this?
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Answer by SedativeChunk
No, there is not a SEO problem with it. It will cause a mark up error if you try to validate the page using the W3C validator and is technically illegal markup, but search engines themselves do not care about this. Most of the major search Engines including Google, Yahoo, and Live Search do not read meta tags anymore, but scan the actual content on the web page and match people’s searches to the criteria.
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