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Meta keywords
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 should every site have meta keywords or is this not used anymore? I don't use yoast and prefer rank math but there is nowhere to insert it. when I look at moz bar it shows meta keywords as a field so maybe it is important... 
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 Hi there, No, there is use for ranking on google. There might be other services/tools that use that, but as that tag was created specifically for search engines, I'd wouldn't spend any more time than reading this answer  
 As said in this google webmasters blog:Â Googles does not use metakeywords tag in web rankings.Hope it helps. 
 Best luck.
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