TOPIC: Keywords/Meta Tags

Will entering in more than 1 local city in my keywords for my home page affect google ranking?  Right now all I am using is St Petersburg, but was wondering if I added another one or two in the Meta and Keywords how that would affect indexing and relevancy.  Also, in keywords, should I be putting a hyphen in between words like 'home inspection' 'wind mitigation' etc?  I am treating home inspection, wind mitigation, st petersburg as one keyword in my designation but have been doing some reading and it should be more based on 1 word at a time, separated by a comma?  Last Question on this and thanks for everyone's patience, for my home page, I am using in meta and keywords alot of my services, my keywords are st petersburg, home inspector, wind mitigation, 4 point, roof inspection.  Should I maybe just use St Petersburg, home inspector and then use st petersburg wind mitigation, st petersburg 4 point on other relevant pages on the site, IE am I hurting ranking by overreaching on the home page?

Hi Glenn,

The more focused your site, the better it will do. But, with that said, Google basically ignores the keywords meta tag now. Focus one your content and go ahead and add the extra phrases (5 max). No hyphen, just a comma between phrases. Creating multiple pages for different topics is a good idea.

Thanks Dom.