Title: Search Engine Question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search Engine Question

 *  [thatsmyshirt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thatsmyshirt/)
 * (@thatsmyshirt)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-question/)
 * New to Word Press. Is there a need to go into the head file (index) and add keywords
   and a description for search engine purposes. If so what is the best way to do
   this?

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 *  [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
 * (@tomhanna)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-question/#post-261944)
 * No, it’s not necessary. The major search engines aren’t using meta tags anymore–
   spammers broke them for everybody.

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## Tags

 * [engine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/engine/)
 * [head](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/head/)

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-question/#post-261944)
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