Quick Meta Tag question

by halfpoint

Posted: 15 years ago 16 replies

Hey guys,

I am using a squeeze page template that I purchased and looking at the source code I've noticed that there is no keyword/description Meta Tags.

Under the title tag there is a tag that looks like this;

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

If I want to use keyword/description tags where do I put the code? Just directly below the title tag?

Do I just copy and paste something like this;

<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="your own words">
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="your own words">

And replace it with my keywords?

Thanks!

#meta #question #quick #tag

debra

15 years ago

Here's a template for your meta tags.

You place your meta tags between the

<head>

(copy and paste meta tags here)

</head>

Now for the meta tag template:

<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="place the page's description here">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="place PAGE key words here, separated by commas">
Hint: Do not repeat words and keep the list short and specific to the page.
Choose ONLY ONE of the four Robot METAs below that apply to the page you place it on.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT= "INDEX, FOLLOW">
Function: Robot indexes the page AND follows all links (Default state if no robots meta is specified.)
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT= "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Function: Robot does not index the page nor follow links (Good for a links page, shopping cart, etc.)
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Function: Robot indexes the page but does NOT follow links
<META NAME="ROBOTS' CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">
Function: Robot does NOT index the page but follows all links (Good for transition page)
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="30 DAYS">
Options: This can be anything you want in days. Be realistic, if your site is rather static, go with 30 days or longer. If you do a weekly calendar of events, 5 days is a good starting point for that individual page. You don't want to have robots scarfing up your page every day if they are not changing.
<META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="viewer rating goes here (choose one from options)">
Options: general, adult, mature, restricted, 14 years, safe for kids
<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="Copyright©2009 Your Company Here.com, all rights reserved">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="your name or company name here">
This and the contact address below, provide a way for individuals to contact you.
<META NAME="CONTACT_ADDR"="the contact e-mail or physical address for you or your company">
This and the author tag above provide a way for individuals to contact you.
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="Global">
Options: Local (or a specific geographic area such as New England, Western Europe, or Japan. Use Global unless you want your pages restricted to a certain geographic area. Use Local for intranet (internal company) sites that you do NOT want indexed along with a NOINDEX NOFOLLOW robots META and a robots.txt file restricting robot access to the pages.
<META NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE" CONTENT="document">
This tells the robot that the page is an html document and should be walked

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halfpoint

15 years ago

Perfect! Exactly what I was after.

Thank you.

How important is this tag?

<meta name="revisit-after" content="x days" />
My site will be mostly static.. should I make use of this?

Thanks
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halfpoint

15 years ago

Also, I know its not good to repeat your keywords in the keyword tag, however;

Say you were targeting weight loss and had keywords like, "weight loss tips", "weight loss guide" would it be detrimental to include both of them as both contain "weight loss"

?

Thanks
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debra

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

Weight loss tips and weight loss guide are to different perspectives.

If you want the most out of your time, then focuse one page on "weight loss tips" and create another page for "weight loss guide".

Example for "weight loss tips":
weight loss tips, weightloss tips, weightloss, weight loss tip, weightloss tip

And likewise for "weight loss guide".

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halfpoint

15 years ago

Oh ok yep that makes sense with the keywords, thanks!

Php extension sounds interesting.. adding an RSS feed would be great.

So I just change the extension to .php instead of .html?

How do I then go about adding an rss feed?

Thanks
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debra

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

Yep...just change the extension and use .php

The rss feed...it would be best if you had your own hosted blog so that you post in one central place and the feed would auto update your static pages and any other VRE that you have for the site. Like squidoo lens, hubpages, knols, any social network blog that you have,etc.

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debra

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

Opps! Forgot to add where you can get more info on adding search engine friendly rss feed to your pages:

Add RSS News Feeds to Your Website, Free Website Content, Free RSS Feed Reader

Once you setup your own feed...post it in all the feed directories.

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halfpoint

15 years ago

Its a very small targeted niche site and I had planned on just driving traffic to a squeeze page and primarily using email marketing methods.

Should I just install a wordpress blog on mydomain.com/blog and use that for the RSS feed?

Then I could combine Ezine author, Youtube, Squidoo feeds together?

Thanks
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debra

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

Yes...now your getting the picture.

Traffic comes through the loops you build. The more you expand on your market reach...the better and the search engines will notice.

You can then use your own feeds to loop it all together into an authority node.

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debra

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

Perfect! Exactly what I was after.

Thank you.

How important is this tag?

<meta name="revisit-after" content="x days" />
My site will be mostly static.. should I make use of this?

Use all the tags.

Did you know that you can change an .html to .php without having an actual php database?

If you create your .html page with a .php extension, then you can include server side includes...like RSS feeds...which will keep your static page freash for the search engines.

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Mickm

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

Perfect! Exactly what I was after.

Thank you.

How important is this tag?

<meta name="revisit-after" content="x days" />
My site will be mostly static.. should I make use of this?

If your site is static and you're not updating that page often DON'T USE THAT TAG!!!

Search engines will return to your site after X number of days, compare it to previous versions and see that you've told them to revisit for no reason. Google, for example, sees two types of pages.. fresh and stale, if you're saying that your page is fresh (updated often) when it's actually stale, Google will probably pay more attention to other sites in your niche as you've called it there for no reason.

I'm not saying fresh pages are better than stale pages, it all depends on what's happening in your niche, but it's important to give Google what it expects to see... the revisit tag tells Google to expect new content after X number of days.

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ehicks727

15 years ago

People... please remember two things when adding your meta tags

1. DON'T USE ALL CAPS!!! HTML Standards do no include caps anymore.
2. Close your tags.

Proper formatting of your meta tags is as follows

<meta name="" content="" />

Notice the forward-slash at the end. This CLOSES the tag. This is a shortcut to formal closing of tags, such as this...

<meta></meta>

HTML allows certain tags to be closed in a single, shorted way..

<br />, etc...

So, to summarize, don't do all caps and close your tags. Your sites will validate and Google will like your page better if it validates.

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halfpoint

15 years ago

Hey guys.. just had another question to ask.

I have a new domain that just got indexed.. however the title and description that I put in the meta tags isn't the same one that shows up when I see it in Google?

The domain in question is QuickAcneRelief.info: How To Get Rid Of Acne Naturally

I would be very grateful if you could take a look.

Thanks
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halfpoint 15 years ago

Just to add to the above.. that is the correct anchor title text that I put in.. however, on a Google search that isn't whats there.

Am I missing something?
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debra

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

If Google has already indexed you in the serps...then the page your seeing in the search engine is a previous snapshot of the page. It could take a few days for all of googles servers to update the changes after it has crawled your page again.

btw - I noticed that your images are named this: "template_2_C1_R1.jpg"

It would do you a lot of good in the relevancy department it label them as one of your main keywords...like: "natural_acne_remedy.jpg". Whatever your root search term is.

And...

Add about 250 words of rich content to the page to increase your scores.

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scene4u 15 years ago

The meta tags are really useful for improving your site's relevancy for the terms you are targeting. Each page should have unique Meta data relevant to the 'on-page' content. Moreover, if you are looking for the code you need to implement then just copy and paste it from the source of a site with Meta tags.
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