Are you supposed to create customized “Meta-Tags” for each page on your website?
Debbie
Why is that?
The keywords meta tag is pretty much irrelevant, and has been for several years.
So should I get rid of them?
The title and descriptions meta tag should be customised for each individual page. Otherwise, how are search engines and people using search engines supposed to know what they are getting?
I thought the search engines looked at ALL OF THE CONTENT on a page and indexed it accordingly?! :-/
The title and description will be the first things on your website that people see, if they’re looking on a search engine, so those need to be right, and they need to be relevant. Otherwise, even if the page appears near the top of the search results, people will read a generic page description that doesn’t seem to answer their question and move right along to the next page in the list.
So it sounds like having a generic Meta-Tag include for all web-pages was a bad idea…
Debbie
you don’t have to, as many of them have little or no benefit, but you can if you want to
the one you should always have is –
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
and you can pick a different charset if you wish
because search engines might use it to list your page on search results, another one you should probably use is –
<meta name="description" content="several lines explaining what's on the page">
you can also make them up, like this one i always use –
<meta name="generator" content="WebHackerPro(tm) Version 5.937">
Right now I have this in an “html_meta.inc.php” file…
<title>My Company Name - Dealing with...</title>
<meta name="description" content="Description of what I do...>
<meta name="keywords" content="A dozen keywords describing what I do...>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
It is included in each web page on my website.
Is that hurting me any??
My website has lots of content and articles, so I’m wondering if I need to have specific meta-tags or whatever for each page so that the search engines can find each page and topic.
My website is about “Small Business”, and let’s say that I have a web-page on each of these topic…
- Starting an Online Business
- Benefits of Pay Pal
- How to Incorporate
- Do you need an Attorney?
Because the above topics aren’t necessarily related very closely from a search stand-point, do I need Meta-Tags or other things to make sure people find me whether they search for…
or
“Starting an Online Business”
“Benefits of Pay Pal”
“How to Incorporate”
“Do you need an Attorney?”
Hope that makes sense?!
Debbie
I think its good to optimize the inner pages. like there tittle tag, description and other meta tags So search engine can better understand your website page which one to be loaded after some query. these inner page description should attract the search engine user toward your website…
You should have the content-type/charset tag immediately following the <title>, before any other tags.
The keywords meta tag is pretty much irrelevant, and has been for several years.
The title and descriptions meta tag should be customised for each individual page. Otherwise, how are search engines and people using search engines supposed to know what they are getting? The title and description will be the first things on your website that people see, if they’re looking on a search engine, so those need to be right, and they need to be relevant. Otherwise, even if the page appears near the top of the search results, people will read a generic page description that doesn’t seem to answer their question and move right along to the next page in the list.
You should have the character encoding information before the other meta tags, because then the user-agent knows what character set you’re using when you get to the meta information. If you’re using plain ASCII characters only, it’s unlikely to cause a problem, but if you’ve got anything beyond that, it could cause your characters in your description to be displayed incorrectly in search engines.
The keywords is unlikely to do you any harm, but it won’t be doing you any good either. It won’t hurt to remove it, but I certainly wouldn’t spend any time or effort on changing it.
Yes, search engines will read the entire content of the page when ranking it, but that doesn’t help people looking at the search results. How would it look to people if they got these results? Yes, the search engines might show a snippet from the page rather than the meta description, but that looks messy and unprofessional compared with having a properly crafted description…
Debbie’s site about stuff
Visit Debbie’s site about stuff for all the information on stuff you could ever want to know plus loads of other bits and pieces
www.debbiesstuff.com/page1
Debbie’s site about stuff
Visit Debbie’s site about stuff for all the information on stuff you could ever want to know plus loads of other bits and pieces
www.debbiesstuff.com/page2
Debbie’s site about stuff
Visit Debbie’s site about stuff for all the information on stuff you could ever want to know plus loads of other bits and pieces
www.debbiesstuff.com/page3
Ha ha. You made your point!!
Now I know why I’m not coming up as high in page rankings for pages other than my Home Page. It’s because they all look like your example above to Google. (I just figured the content in each different page was enough?!)
Okay, so I’ll yank out my global include and have a customized Title and Description for each page.
Going farther… Just how important to a page’s ranking is a good Title and Description. Are those two things just secondary or tertiary like “Keywords”, or do they really make a difference?
From what I’ve been told, links from other websites and actual visitor traffic are what is most important. But obviously I want to be smart about everything to increase the chance that my website survives!
Thanks,
Debbie
From what I can make out, the title and description don’t have a huge impact on how well your site ranks in the search results (the title I’m sure is considered, less sure about the description), but they can have a massive impact on the number of people who click through to your site. And there’s no point in being #1 in Google if everybody ignores you and moves straight on to #2.
YES.
From SEO point of view, we should create unique meta for all pages, which will be helpful for crawlers to identify webpage detail.
If your site is static then you should set meta tags for each and every page of your website. And if it something like any blog then i think there is not need to do it on every page.
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<meta name=“keywords” content=“” />
<meta name=“description” content=“” />