I'm thinking about buying a website template. How would I add title and meta tags, description, content, keywords to every page of the website? Thanks in advance and forgive me for the newbie question. This is still all new to me.
At the top of your template (code/html) enter the following tags between the <head> </head> tag: <title>Your title</title> <META name="Description" content="Your Description here..."> <META name="Keywords" content="your keywords here..."> If you are using Dreamweaver to edit the html files, you can use the 'find and replace' command to update all your html files without doing them manually on each page.
Thanks! Another questions. How are the title and meta tags added on custom made websites? Do they have to be entered manually or are the websites coded in a way so that it takes the title, content, description directly off the web page and add it into the meta tags?
Title and Meta tags appear in the head of the document, as already suggested by ferrero this is the way to add it. However if you are using a CMS of some sort they sometimes have a function whereby these are automatically generated, via some PHP coding of some sort, if this is what you mean. By the way a CMS is a content-management system like joomla, drupal or wordpress which can manage your content for you. So to summarise if you don't want to do it manually, you will either have to find the PHP or even script to suit your needs, in order to automate it.. or start using a CMS and install related plugins e.g all in one seo pack (plugin) for wordpress (the cms), this plugin helps take care of these, however it only works with wordpress.
you can customise your SEO easily... its the "monitoring and implementation" thats hard! can take months and months to get right (also a tip, go to your competitors sites and view their meta tags by right clicking and selecting "view source" will save you a lot of head scratching
Thanks again for all the help. I wanted to know if I could set up the website so that the title and meta tags are automaticaly generated from the contents of the webpage. We can use this thread as an example. The subject title is automatically used as the webpage title, keywords, and content. <meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.6.8" /> <meta name="keywords" content="I'm thinking about buying a website template. How would I add title and meta tags?" /> <meta name="description" content="I'm thinking about buying a website template. How would I add title and meta tags? (from HTML & Website Design)" /> How hard is it to set something like this up? I'm gonna have a lot of pages on my website and don't wanna have to enter the meta tags one by one.