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How to insert metatags in CSS site?

by Richard Tunnah
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My web guy has forgotten to add my site description and keywords onto my new css site. I think I should probably learn how to do this so I can play around with the keywords etc. Can anyone advise where I insert these please?
Here's my CSS site header lines.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>TITLE OF WEBSITE</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />
<head>

Thanks,
Rich
#css #insert #metatags #site
  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    Anywhere within the <head></head> tags is fine. I usually put them underneath the <title>, for organizational reasons.

    Just for your information, "CSS site" doesn't really mean anything. What you have shown us is a chunk of HTML code, not CSS. All websites are made from HTML, and 99.99% of the time, from CSS also.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sensei.Design
    wayfarer is right, there is no such thing as a css site whre you can instert metatags.

    you need to past them into the head area of the php/html file.

    here are the most important ones:

    Code:
    <meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Tunnah
      Thanks guys. Not a techy person even though I've been online for over 10 years. LOL

      Rich
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    BTW, unless you have a custom search app on your site (which will use meta keywords if it is programmed to do so), the ONLY <meta> tag which is important (not counting meta http-equiv tags), is the meta description tag:
    HTML Code:
    <meta name="description" content="This content is very useful, and will appear in the search results" />
    Meta keywords, on the other hand, are completely ignored by Google, and do pretty much nothing for other search engines as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author smithb
      You can insert it within <head></head> tag.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jay Moreno
      Originally Posted by wayfarer View Post

      BTW, unless you have a custom search app on your site (which will use meta keywords if it is programmed to do so), the ONLY <meta> tag which is important (not counting meta http-equiv tags), is the meta description tag:
      HTML Code:
      <meta name="description" content="This content is very useful, and will appear in the search results" />
      Meta keywords, on the other hand, are completely ignored by Google, and do pretty much nothing for other search engines as well.
      since it neither hurts your rankings to include your keywords - i would still include them, i guess it goes down to personal choice
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      • Profile picture of the author hunter29
        Originally Posted by ukescuba View Post

        since it neither hurts your rankings to include your keywords - i would still include them, i guess it goes down to personal choice
        Yes. I still prefer to include meta keywords tag.
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    • Profile picture of the author LeviBrown
      Originally Posted by wayfarer View Post

      BTW, ...Meta keywords, on the other hand, are completely ignored by Google, and do pretty much nothing for other search engines as well.
      I know I am getting a little bit semantical on you here - but Google does not IGNORE meta tags. They are used when calculating page keyword density. So even though they don't entirely get used for there original intended purpose. If I add just the word "pink elephant hammer pond" to my meta description then it will increase the density for these words in relation to all other words on the page.... Just a tip - DON'T stuff the meta tags to get that exact density you are aiming for & also remember that some sites meta description tag will still have an impact on the lead in description under the link to your site that is displayed in the Google index.

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      • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
        Originally Posted by LeviBrown View Post

        I know I am getting a little bit semantical on you here - but Google does not IGNORE meta tags. They are used when calculating page keyword density. So even though they don't entirely get used for there original intended purpose. If I add just the word "pink elephant hammer pond" to my meta description then it will increase the density for these words in relation to all other words on the page.... Just a tip - DON'T stuff the meta tags to get that exact density you are aiming for & also remember that some sites meta description tag will still have an impact on the lead in description under the link to your site that is displayed in the Google index.

        Happy Turkey Day dOOdz and d00dettes'
        I beg to differ. Google does not have any reason to consider meta tags when analyzing page content. The page's content is enough when analyzing the page's content.

        Keyword "density" is too simplistic to be meaningful, since it does not suggest relational word structure, which is what Google really cares about. Remember, the folks at Google are smart enough to build algorithms that translate Japanese to English. I think they can figure out what a page's content is.

        Also, Google has stated explicitly that they don't take the meta description tag into consideration when factoring rankings. It is useful because it appears, either partially or in whole, in the search results: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
        Even though we sometimes use the description meta tag for the snippets we show, we still don't use the description meta tag in our ranking.
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      • Profile picture of the author hometutor
        Originally Posted by LeviBrown View Post

        I know I am getting a little bit semantical on you here - but Google does not IGNORE meta tags. They are used when calculating page keyword density. So even though they don't entirely get used for there original intended purpose. If I add just the word "pink elephant hammer pond" to my meta description then it will increase the density for these words in relation to all other words on the page.... Just a tip - DON'T stuff the meta tags to get that exact density you are aiming for & also remember that some sites meta description tag will still have an impact on the lead in description under the link to your site that is displayed in the Google index.

        Happy Turkey Day dOOdz and d00dettes'
        Best explanation I've heard about the use of the keyword meta tag thanks

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  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    If you look at the source for this page or any WF page I've looked at, it does include the meta keywords tag, filled out. Also an example of meta tags for the op.

    //oyd
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