Hi I am new here and I couldn't find a better spot for this so here it is..... I am looking to create mata tags for my sub pages.... The questions I have Do you target in one word or do you target more words in your title tag ? I am trying to target the word NFL Picks Is this a good tag ? If anyone could give me any pointers that would be great I am very sorry if I put that in the wrong place.... <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title>NFL Picks </title> <meta name="description" content="NFL Picks -Get NFL picks from the top NFL picks sports handicappers."> <meta name="keywords" content="nfl picks, nfl football picks, college football picks, football picks, sports handicapping, pro football picks, NFL football sportsbooks,sportsbook,sportsbook review,sports gambling, top football handicappers, football handicappers"> <meta name="author" content="letstalksportsforum.com"> <meta name="copyright" content="letstalksportsforum.com"> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
Hello, In my opion your meta tag description looks a little spammy you could use something like.... <meta name="description" content="NFL Picks -Get NFL WORD WORD picks from the top NFL WORD picks sports handicappers.">
Is NFL Picks ok???? <meta name="description" content="NFL Picks -Get NFL football picks from the top NFL top sports picks handicapper."> Does this look better ? Should you have one keyword in the title or more ? Thanks again
Well as far as I know there is no difference between the two. But it is a good practice to use lowercase
G ignores the meta tags for searching criterias . it will not effect your search but in my opinion, meta tags must be 60-100 chracters and your example looks a bit spammy
Neither of those is true. Google does not ignore meta tags, and the proper length depends on which tag it is. Meta keywords are not that important (although I think they are used in accessibility standards), but remember that the meta desc might wind up being used as the search engine snippet if it happens to be relevant for the keywords for which they find you. Here's some decent posts on it: http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5020 http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5480 -Michael
sometimes they are shown when your site appears in the SERPS so written correctly it can increase your ctr
Check this article on metatags - it has all you all need to know. Short version: you do need title and description tags, but don't spam them. Don't just repeat keywords in there because you can. Use them in such a way that they don't look spammy to people. That way google also takes them more seriously.
The meta description is somewhat useful. Meta keywords have been dead for a long time. Also, you don't need the robots tag unless you want to prevent indexing. Search engine bots will follow, index by default.
They ignore the keyword tag. You can test this by putting a made up word in your meta keywords tag, Wait for google to reindex that page, Then search for the word you made up. It wont appear. But as was said before, Sometimes google will use the meta description as the text snippet in the serps. So it should be something that will encourage a click i.e a well worded meaningful sentence that describes that page.
I started the article saying: The above title is slightly overdone. I don't see where I say the title is a metatag.
You're kidding, right? So, now you're saying that you know that the title isn't a meta tag, and that you couldn't see where you said that in the article? -Michael
The word 'title' in the English language can refer to several things: 1) the title (NOT TITLE TAG) of any article, book, show, record, game etc. 2) the title-tag of an HTML-document. I used the word on the first sense in the article - and in the second in the second quote. I think it's pretty clear which is which.
I'm sorry, but I have no clue whatsoever you are going on about. You say "here are the three meta-tags you need to pay careful attention to:"... most people will assume you will be following with a list of 3 meta tags... The first item in that list, is title. The TITLE tag is NOT a meta tag! I will give you 3 guesses as to which type of tag it is... -Michael