seo(meta): drop the legacy keywords tag from the root metadata - #9
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Search engines stopped reading <meta name="keywords"> in 2009, so the tag
carries no ranking weight in either direction. The crawl still flagged it
as irrelevant_meta_keywords: two of the nine terms it listed ("Suede Agent
Studio", "Jason Colapietro") do not appear in the page's visible prose,
which is what the heuristic reads as keyword padding.
Removing the keywords field from the metadata export drops the tag from
every prerendered page. Nothing else in the metadata changes, and no test
or contract pinned the array.
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Finding
agentix.suedeai.ai#5(LOW, lane 3) from the 2026-09-05 estate SEO crawl.What the crawl saw. DataForSEO flagged
irrelevant_meta_keywordson thehomepage. The served tag was:
Two of those terms, "Suede Agent Studio" and "Jason Colapietro", are absent
from the page's visible prose, which is the mismatch the heuristic reads.
Fix. Deleted the
keywordsarray from themetadataexport insrc/app/layout.tsx. That is the only source of the tag in the repo, andgit grep -i keywordson main returned this one line, so no test, snapshot,or contract pinned it.
Local evidence.
npm run typecheckclean,npm test26/26 passing,npm run buildsucceeded, andgrep -rl 'name="keywords"' .next/server/appmatched 0 of the 20 prerendered HTML files.
Heads-up for the in-flight directory work. The shared
~/code/agentixcheckout has uncommitted work on this same file that inserts "AI agent
directory" into this array. This PR removes the array outright, so that
addition has nowhere to land. Rebasing the WIP onto main will surface a
conflict on this hunk rather than dropping the line quietly. Resolve it by
keeping the deletion: the tag has no ranking effect, so adding a term to it
buys nothing. The same WIP also carries a pre-#8 title and description with
em dashes, so it needs a rebase regardless.