I use a Wordpress blog package. They have an SEO plugin. Wants the Title and Keywords that pertain to that blog topic. They also want the Description. The Tag of course.
Should I put information about my company in that field? You know “An article by blah blah blah” since that info will appear below in the search engine results.
If so should I put the html in to create a link in that Description tag to link to my company or is that overkill? That would allow a person to also link to my site?
Does Goole frown on this? Is this Black Hat. If so I don’t want to do it. Just would like to see some reward for putting out the post.
The description should be a short snippet (up to about 150 characters including spaces) that gives a brief description of that page, one that will be useful to people searching and that will help them identify whether your page is what they are looking for. If the description does not match the page content then it is unlikely to be shown in the search results.
Remember, you’ve only got about the length of a tweet, or a single SMS message. Bt abbrvns & txt spk You need to use proper language, and that means you can’t afford to waste words on ‘fluff’. Do you need to start it “An article by” or could those 13 characters be better used in actual description?
The description is just plain text. Apart from using HTML entities (& etc) where necessary, there should be no other markup. I’m really not sure what you mean by…
If so should I put the html in to create a link in that Description tag to link to my company or is that overkill? That would allow a person to also link to my site?
…one of us doesn’t understand something pretty major, and I don’t think it’s me. How does putting a link in the description help people to link to you, given that the description will only ever appear just below a big blue link to you? If your visitor isn’t capable of right-clicking on that link, or following the link and clicking in the address bar, to get the URL then I don’t think that including it in the description will help…
You need to use proper language, and that means you can’t afford to waste words on ‘fluff’. Do you need to start it “An article by” or could those 13 characters be better used in actual description?