Use docs tags as SEO keywords (or vice-versa)

[lucas-tortora]

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines on issues?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines on issues.

Motivation

Since most of the time SEO keywords and tags will be about the same, it may be a good idea to use keywords as tags (or vice-versa), so users can get the benefit of both SEO keywords and blog style tags while only having to maintain half the frontmatter.

Self-service

• I'd be willing to do some initial work on this proposal myself.

[Josh-Cena]

@lucas-tortora Sounds good to me. Can't wait to see this feature if you are willing to work on this yourself :D I'd prefer to use tags as keywords rather than the other way round, because keywords are more "invisible".

FYI, there's a lot we can do to improve the SEO of docs. #5322 made blogs have rich results but we haven't ported much of that to docs. After #5691 we will also be in a good position to include authors and date information, but keywords seem safe to add at the moment.

[slorber]

Not sure if there's an "official" source for that, but it's widely known that it's not useful to use keyword meta anymore and has basically no utility for Google.

https://en.ryte.com/wiki/Meta_Keyword#:~:text=Meta%20keywords%20is%20a%20type,and%20separated%20with%20a%20comma.

Meta keywords is a type of meta tags in the HTML source code of a webpage which no longer has any relevance on Search Engine understanding of the page and therefore can not influence organic rankings. The keywords are generally written in lower case, and separated with a comma. Due to the fact that they were heavily manipulated during efforts to rank a page higher in organic search, they are irrelevant for search engine optimization and don't have any ranking influence.

[slorber]

@jdevalk any opinion on using keyword meta for Docusaurus blog/docs pages by default?

[jdevalk]

Yeah I have an opinion on that. meta keywords are quite useless 😀

[slorber]

Thanks :) let's close then unless someone can provide good reasons to support this