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john_internet
07-10-2002, 14:34/02:34PM
Hello There

I was wondering if someone can give me an advice on this matter.

When creating meta tags for your website do you need to have a different meta tag for each page or should you only have one meta tag and paste it into the <head> of all your subsequent pages.

If you can have different meta tags in different pages of your website are there any advantages or disadvantages with doing this?

Thank you very much:cheers:
Blue
07-10-2002, 14:43/02:43PM
Hi john_internet,

Each individual page should have it's own unique set of META tags reflecting what that individual page is about.

For example, if you have three pages:

- blue widgets

<title>blue widgets</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="blue widgets">
<meta name="description" content="blue widgets">


- green thingamajiggers

<title>green thingamajiggers</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="green thingamajiggers">
<meta name="description" content="green thingamajiggers">

- and taupe doohickeys

<title>taupe doohickeys</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="taupe doohickeys">
<meta name="description" content="taupe doohickeys">

- the reason being that each page reflects information on a different subject, and so should the META tags.

The advantage is that each individual page can be indexed on it's own merits in the search engines, thereby increasing it's chances of being found.
scottiecl
07-10-2002, 14:46/02:46PM
You will find in here that meta keyword tags are looked upon as nearly useless. Some mods here don't use them at all.

You will probably want to use different meta keyword tags for the page that reflect the terms that page is optimized for. It is a good idea to pick one or two phrases that reflect the content on the page and optimize for those terms in your title, description, and keywords tags.

If you can use those words in the anchor text on pages leading to that page, all the better.

IMO, if you were going to use the same ones for every page, you'd be better off dropping the tag altogether and letting the SE get to your content without wading through extra code.

Welcome to the forum! :hi: :hi: