About a month ago, Bing confirmed they use the meta keywords tag as part of their many ranking signals.

As we said then, Yahoo did also. Most SEOs I know, at least in the publishing business, don’t bother with the meta keywords but according to my poll, most will again.

So we ran a poll and have over 300 responses, they said:

48% will now use the meta keywords tag
30% will still not use the meta keywords tag
19% said they might, depending on how much free time they have
3% said “other”

Forum discussion continued at WebmasterWorld.

Note: This story was written earlier this week and scheduled to be published today.