{"id":13294,"date":"2025-06-17T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/what-are-meta-keywords-why-to-avoid-them\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:45:36","slug":"what-are-meta-keywords-why-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/what-are-meta-keywords-why-to-avoid-them\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Meta Keywords? + Why to Avoid Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.semrush.com\/blog\/uploads\/media\/df\/c0\/dfc0348c5f516583f3616f330d97734f\/meta-keywords.svg\" alt=\"What Are Meta Keywords? + Why to Avoid Them\" width=\"448\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/p>\n<p>Learn why we don\u2018t recommend using meta keywords or meta keyword tags as part of your SEO strategy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn why we don\u2018t recommend using meta keywords or meta keyword tags as part of your SEO strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semrush"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}