I have the Yoast plugin for WP and WooComm and in an article in their help section they stat that their current versions of the plugins they have removed the capacity to activate meta keywords as their importance in SEO is deprecated.
However, as I seek more understanding of this I find sites using a lot of other meta tags so I'm puzzled of their on-going usefulness.
I'd like to think that Meta tags other than keywords are still a vital part of web design but if so why doesn't WP or WooComm or Yoast support them.
Below is an example of a head tag I've found. I've removed specific site related info with xxxxxx's and 11111's
Notice the tags for Twitter and Pinterest - this seems like useful info to me
Also notice description and keywords have been nulled out as expected.
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="VS Shop">
<meta property="og:title" content="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:url" content="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">
<meta property="og:image" content="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="site name>
<meta property="og:description" content="">
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US">
<meta property="fb:admins" content="11111111111111">
<meta property="fb:admins" content="1111111111111">
<meta property="fb:admins" content="1111111111111">
<meta property="fb:admins" content="1111111111111">
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="11111111111111">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:url" content"link to product">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="product, category and company name">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="product image">
<meta name="pinterest:description" content="">
<meta name="pinterest:image" content="">
Any help on this appreciated.
Thanks again
Kerry
