Quick question. In the Meta keyword section, how many times are you allowed ( or should) to use the main keyword, in isteself and in phrases.

Like I use it 5 times now in the section, what is that sweet spot....

thanks all....

I think it's 3 ( as I remember ). Like Web Design Web Page Design Web Hosting etc all have web in... It doesnt make a great difference like your supposed to have 20 keywords....etc

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doesnt matter really, your meta keywords should never speak about anything not covered on your page, and your page should never be so general as to not have just a few well targeted keyphrases. Basically I would emulate the phrases in my title and little else

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Thank you for your replies

Google will just ignore your keyword metatags. Inktomi won't. If you want to optimize solely for Google Crawlers, not worth to waste time in thinking the keyword meta tags.