Analyze my Meta Tags please!

Halfdeck · 2005-11-08, 06:04 AM

Description meta tag is a must, for a couple of reasons:

1) If you use nav links on the left side of the page for say 100 pages, and you forget the description tag, then the 100 pages will be indexed with the nav html as the description and you may end up with 100 dups even if you have unique content on each page.

2) Even if you don't use nav links, if your pages under one domain all use the same title/description, Google may regard them all as dupes.

3) Also, even though the text that comes up under your title depends on the search phrase, if you've got the page optimized for a specific key phrase, then your description should come up first. And as Linkster said, if you're on Google page #1 surrounded above and below by sites with spammy titles/descriptions then a good title/description can work for you.

As for keywords...even though Google may not reward you for using keywords, using that tag is a good way to remind yourself what you optimized the page for. I don't always use it, especially for fresh pages where I'm "fishing" for keywords but using them after you have incoming SE traffic can't do you no harm.

2005-11-08, 06:04 AM	#14
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	Description meta tag is a must, for a couple of reasons: 1) If you use nav links on the left side of the page for say 100 pages, and you forget the description tag, then the 100 pages will be indexed with the nav html as the description and you may end up with 100 dups even if you have unique content on each page. 2) Even if you don't use nav links, if your pages under one domain all use the same title/description, Google may regard them all as dupes. 3) Also, even though the text that comes up under your title depends on the search phrase, if you've got the page optimized for a specific key phrase, then your description should come up first. And as Linkster said, if you're on Google page #1 surrounded above and below by sites with spammy titles/descriptions then a good title/description can work for you. As for keywords...even though Google may not reward you for using keywords, using that tag is a good way to remind yourself what you optimized the page for. I don't always use it, especially for fresh pages where I'm "fishing" for keywords but using them after you have incoming SE traffic can't do you no harm. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.