Greetings I ordered database driven site from a coder, that completed the work. I told him that some areas should have their own header, but now i notice the whole god damn site is depended on mod rewrite and one god damn page with one header. I would love to shoot this coder, since i told him about the meta tags. Now, how important are the meta tags these days? Thanks to the coder, i need to hand write sitemap from 10k pages, damn damn damn.... then more i explore my new site while i develop it, then more problems i encounter.... Nice now my pages cant have unique title, i think this coder is imbecil, since seo is very very important in this site. *CRY*
Sound rough Title tags are unfotunately pretty important and you may find that pages with identicle meta data get treated as supplemental by Google
I agree with Shellerz. Title tags are essential, and I do not envy the work you have ahead of you. Just know that for the purpose of SEO, your hard work may surely be rewarded. Best of luck!
Also agree - title tags are HUGE when it comes to the search engine ranking process. The keyword and Description tags aren't that important any more as far as SEO goes, but a good description can help sell a searcher on your site.
Well one nice thing about this is that it is database driven. Add to each table in the database a field for: Title 128 Char Description 255 Char Keywords 128 Char H1Tag 64 Char Enter your unique SEO information for each record as needed. Do NOT alter the mod-rewrite scheme he implemented, it will cause you to lose indexing, PR calculation, etc. Just leave it, it won't hurt you. In each "template" used, insert the record data for each of the above "SEO" fields. It will look like this (sorry, classic ASP code): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title><%=strTitle%></title> <meta name="description" content="<%=strDescription%>"> <meta name="keywords" content="<%=strKeywords%>" > <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.catanich.com/styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"> </head> <body> <table width="780" align="center"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a href="http://www.catanich.com/" title="<%=strH1Tag%>"> <img id="logo" src="images/internet-marketing-company-cim.gif" alt="<%=strH1Tag%>" border="0"></a> <h1><%=strH1Tag%></h1> </td> </tr> If the H1 tag does not fit, then don't use it for now in the template. AS you clean up / redesign the templates, do it then. ************* As you can see, the above is called SEO friendly design and should be mandatory for any web design today.
Hey what do you think the Search Engines will do with 10,000 pages and no meta tags? Probably crawl the content. But a site with identical meta tags would look very suspicious. I'd figure out a way to "fix" the code so that it displays at the very least an accurate and unique title tag.
Meta Tag are the life of websites. Without a well directed title and description its impossible to get good ranking for high competitive keywords. Sara
The most important META tags I think you should focus on are your Description tag and robot tags. The description TAG is important as this is the line of text that appears under your site title in the SERP's, and the robot tags to specifically tell them to either index,noindex,follow, nofollow and not to use Yahoo or Google Directory to grab your description (which is usually done if you have no description tag)