How to Add Keywords in WordPress (and What Google Ignores)
Plenty of people come looking for a box in WordPress where you type your keywords.
Adding keywords in WordPress means setting a focus keyphrase and writing a meta description in an SEO plugin like AIOSEO. Google and Bing stopped reading the old meta keywords tag more than a decade ago.
Following an older tutorial will have you switching on a feature AIOSEO deliberately ships disabled. The two fields that genuinely affect how your page shows up in search sit on the same screen, a few inches away.
This guide covers both halves of that, starting with where keywords actually belong now. Then I’ll walk through setting a meta description and focus keyphrase on your posts, pages, and homepage.










