Remove meta keywords tag from page head - #137
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Search engines have not used the meta keywords tag for ranking in over a decade. Dropping it removes a redundant tag from every page. The schema.org keywords property, which is derived from page tags and is still consumed, is unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Eb2uMFkkbVviAV9PBVikPj
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Search engines have not used the
meta name="keywords"tag for ranking in over a decade — Google confirmed it does not use it back in 2009, and Bing treats it as a low-quality signal at best. The tag was being emitted on every page, either from a page's ownkeywordsfrontmatter or from the site-level fallback inhugo.toml.This drops the one line in
layouts/partials/head.htmlthat renders it.Scope
keywordsproperty (derived from pagetags) is unchanged — that one is still consumed by search engines.meta name="description"is unchanged.keywords:frontmatter in content files is left in place. It simply becomes inert, so no content files needed touching.Verification
Production build with
hugo --minify --environment production:meta name="keywords"(was: all of them)meta name="description"still present and correct on spot-checked pages"keywords":["sbom","cyclonedx","spdx","formats"]still emitted🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01Eb2uMFkkbVviAV9PBVikPj