Is the meta keyword tag still important for SEO? Why?

Yes, it is good because it help search engines to identify your website easily when user query a search engine.

Not so important now...

Not for Search Engine Result Page

Meta keywords are not important for Google Search Engines....

Not useful these days as per google instruction.

Not for SERP......................................

Not for Google .............

Not for Google , Meta keywords are important for yahoo and bing search engines

@Nikhil Srivastava, NOTE: Google tells you in 2016 to use a meta description on pages rather than leave it out, so I would listen to them on this point. Thanks

According to Google article published by Matt Cutts in September of 2009. In that article, which was also accompanied by a video, informed us that Google no longer uses meta keyword tags as a SEO ranking factor. After this statement as “Neha” asked this question many other asked, what all the other search engines were doing in regards to the use of meta keyword tags.

Main reason why Google ignore meta keywords tags-

At that time, many people doing foolish things that keyword meta tags quic

Yes,I make sure Meta Keyword is an Important.

Meta descriptions still matter, just not in the same way they used to. They used to be a place to optimize for keywords so crawlers would know more about your page contents; now, it's more important you write something compelling that makes readers want to click so you can improve conversion rates from SERP results to your website.

Yes, Meta Keyword is an Important.