Removed Excessive Keywords Meta - AdSense Doubled

It took 48-72 hrs to show the effect. Excessive key words was big problem. Wish I had this info earlier. Since last 8-10 days I am constantly enjoying double income everyday.

Judging from the topic of this post, I thought he only removed excessive keywords, which is a great idea. A gigantic keyword meta tag is very counter-productive. However, if you totally remove these tags, they will either use your DMOZ description, or the first snippet of text googlebot comes to. Is that a better description then what you could write on your own?

A few questions:

A. Was the tags you totally removed, redundant?
B. Did the meta keyword tag contain words not on the page, and an excessive amount of words?
C. (kinda like A.) Were you using the same exact tags on every page?

I found that on my forum, removing these two meta tags was helpful, that's because if you stuck a meta desc. and meta keyw. in the template, then all the forum pages had the same ones. REmoving them AND checking the text positioning to make sure the first paragraph of the post became the snippet, worked wonders.

Also putting the "topic" variable in the title tag created unique and relevant title tags for the page.

So, for a forum I recommend this too, but for a static site, you may want to just focus on a more accurate re-write of these tags.

First let me clarify I have no idea how it works!

Maybe your adsense has doubled because of Christmas?

Noop, my site is not at all related to products reviews; it is a plain information portal and community driven forum, popular among the students and job seekers.

A. Was the tags you totally removed, redundant?

Yup, I did removed both keywords and description meta tags all together. I had specially developed mod for unique keywords and description, besides we use to edit forum topic titles and keywords as per our requirements using same mod via Admin CP.

B. Did the meta keyword tag contain words not on the page, and an excessive amount of words?

No, around 10-12 keywords per page

C. (kinda like A.) Were you using the same exact tags on every page?

...G will use either your DMOZ description...

According to Google ( http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-control-over-page-snippets.html ):
The way we generate the descriptions (snippets) that appear under a page in the search results is completely automated. The process uses both the content on a page as well as references to it that appear on other sites.

One source we use to generate snippets is the Open Directory Project, or ODP. Some site owners want to be to able to request not using the ODP for generating snippets, and we're happy to let you all know we've added support for this. All you have to do is add a meta tag to your pages.

To direct all search engines that support the meta tag not to use ODP information for the page's description, use the following:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
OR
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP">

This way you can force G not to use DMOZ description.

...the first snippet of text...

Noop.. G shows related content and not just first snippet; please correct me if I am wrong

So how many keywords in the metatags is considered to be acceptable?

This is hard to say. However, a good rule of thumb is Do NOT put in keywords that are either irrelevant to the site, or do not appear on the page at all.

On many of my most successful pages you might be lucky to find 5 or keywords, but on other pages there are about 20 to 30. However, all the words do appear on the page and are relevant, I think that is the key.