keywords vs zoomwords

[Jack1014]

Please excuse a stupid question.

If on a page '<meta name="keywords" content="red,blue,green">'
is replaced with
'<meta name="ZOOMWORDS" content="red,blue,green">'
what, if any, will be the effect on weighting?

I am trying to get rid of the keywords meta tag as I believe it is affecting Google Search.
Thanks for the help.

[David]

There should be no effect from Zoom's point of view.

Keyword weighting for relevancy calculations can also be adjusted from the Weightings configuration page.

See below

[Jack1014]

Yes, have been doing that way of weighting for the local search for years. But it doesn't get rid of the bad effects in Google Indexing from having a keywords meta tag. My experience has been that pages with a large number of keywords are crawled by Google but not indexed.

Thanks for the help.

[David]

You might want to sign up to Google's Search Console service.
https://search.google.com/search-console/about

It might (or might not) show some errors for your site.

[Jack1014]

Thanks. Have been signed up.