Meta tags and meta keywords used to work along time ago in headers for search engines like google, yahoo, msn, etc. I really don't think they have as much weight and bearing as they used to. Keywords and tags are minor they help slightly but not much. Some sites that rank like crazy don't even use them at all.

What helps a ton is the page title. This is one of the most important features. You want your page title to be keyworded for something someone will type into google or other search engine.

After see more that the article, blog, whatever post needs to be targeted to similar keywords related to the title and to what you think someone will actually be searching for in google. Mention it several times in the article or blog and be exact and descriptive.

This is way more important than any meta keywords or phrases in the header.

Your site needs google to come and visit in order to update new posts. Keep posting new articles, blogs, stories, post pictures or whatever. That keeps google coming back to your site for more. Google likes new fresh content. The more the better it eats it up. If you don't keep adding fresh new content google don't come around as often.

Basically the way you write is way more important than any meta tags by far.

In order to rank well in google search results the key is backlinks(other sites linking to your site), but the other sites linking to you should be anchor text keyworded/related to your site. They also need to be dofollow links. If they are nofollow then forget about it, they don't matter as much to google. You still get some keyword optimization, but no page rank from nofollow. Overall backlinks even nofollow are better for your site than none at all and will give you a slight push in terms of anchor text and search terms compared to absolutely none. But dofollow backlinks, and more importantly from high ranked sites can and will make a huge difference. It's a learning process that one should spend a little time learning about if they can.

If backlinks are dofollow and related to your content of your site and you can get a lot of them...it will increase your google pagerank and the results you see in a google search for those terms or keywords in google search and can potentially put you in the top 10 all the time if you are serious about it and really know what you are doing.

It's not something that happens over night. It takes time and commitment, but it pays off. You do not have to do it 24-7 but keeping up on it helps a lot.

Sorry to ramble on everyone!