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How many Meta Tags?

by TheCardMaker
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Couple of questions having just submitted a couple of my sites to search engines, I notice I have no meta tag keywords defined in them! (oops)

First question, how many should I include? I'm sure I could think up thousands from my niche, not sure what the best practice is there

Second, I use master pages, so should I go to the trouble of adding different meta tag keywords to each page (to reflect each page's content) rather than just having one set which is used by every page (defined in the master page). I can see how the meta description would be best to be different for each page, not sure about the meta keywords

Hope this question makes sense and thanks for any answers
#meta #tags
  • Profile picture of the author Tim3
    Meta keywords are no longer used by Google as a ranking factor, therefore it makes no difference if you add them or not.
    If you want to add them in 2 - 6 is sufficient.

    Good, individual meta descriptions for each page may help your clickthrough rate from the SERP's, especially as search terms matching the user query will get bolded,
    there is no guarantee that Big G will use them in your listing, but you should still write a good cliffhanger if you can.
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  • Profile picture of the author kingoptimizer
    Google doesn't look at meta keywords tags anymore and I think Bing and Yahoo will follow. I would add "SEO by Yoast" plugin if your running wordpress. That is the best!
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    You should add zero. They provide no value.
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  • Profile picture of the author diegomonaco
    add meta keywords and descriptin in your <head> </head> title should be no longer than 60 chars and descrip 160 and keywords you can put more
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  • Profile picture of the author DivyaRai
    You must add your meta description tag, if it does not exist, Google will take your rich snippets on your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikest4u
    Absolutely, you must add meta Titles and Description in order to make rich snippet for your website in Google! Title should be around 60 Characters While Description Should be 156 characters!
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  • Profile picture of the author manaskr
    you can try as possible as those pages which linked from home page directly and rest of the inner page is not essential
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    For Meta title the recommended length is 60-70 characters while for the Meta description the ideal length is 150-160 characters.
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  • Profile picture of the author TeKn1qu3z
    If no Meta Tags exists, then add as soon as possible. Every should have a Meta description along with Meta tags if not then nowhere it will rank properly.

    Even Youtube videos need a proper tagging method for ranking in SERP and yotube related videos.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by TeKn1qu3z View Post

      If no Meta Tags exists, then add as soon as possible. Every should have a Meta description along with Meta tags if not then nowhere it will rank properly.

      Really? A site with no meta descriptions will not rank properly?

      Maybe you should let Wikipedia know that they should start using meta descriptions. They seem to have a lot of trouble ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author KnightKz
    You should add 2 important tags meta Title and meta Description. Another tag is optional.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    I'm no SEO expert, but I think they still count for something. Just add a few, the ones you find the most important.
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  • Profile picture of the author kamaldeepchandel
    You don't have to worry about Meta Keywords because this is one of the outdated factor in search engine ranking. If you want to add them there is no harm but it is just for your reference, these are the keywords which I target for this page, that's it!
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  • Profile picture of the author WardHare
    Meta tag is a great way for webmasters to provide search engines with detail about their sites. This tag provides a short description of the page. If they are important to your site, you can use different types of meta tags.
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  • Profile picture of the author aliblogger1985
    If you are talking on behalf of google than you should forget keyword tags. because google is not giving any importance to them.
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