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The word you search, not the word the page actually used — that's the whole fight.
means A term you pick to flag or find content — what you type into a search box or stuff into a webpage hoping the two will meet.
from Straightforward compound of 'key' (in its sense of 'crucial, unlocking thing,' from Old English cæg) plus 'word.' It entered real use in indexing and library science, where a 'key word' was literally the word used to unlock or retrieve a record — long before search engines turned it into a battlefield.
- seo origin
- Turned writing into guessing what robots want to read
- density myth
- Stuffing them in repeatedly actually tanks your ranking
- legal sense
- In contracts, one keyword can flip an entire clause's meaning
- search evolution
- Google now reads intent, keywords are just hints now