{"id":959,"date":"2011-09-02T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2011\/09\/02\/adding-meta-keywords-tag\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:26:50","slug":"adding-meta-keywords-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/seo\/adding-meta-keywords-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a Meta Keywords Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding a meta keywords tag is very similar to adding a meta description. You will need to place the meta keywords tag within the &lt;head&gt;&lt;\/head&gt; tags of your website&#8217;s HTML code. 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