Question about SEO and main keywords on my wordpress site

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I set up the meta tag and keywords in the script of my site, but the question is, are these the keywords I should be trying to rank high for in google? I am using wordpress.

My website has a main page, which is a free ebook, then a blog. When making new blog posts, should I install a plugin that includes those keywords on each blog post?

Any suggestions welcome..

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Create Meta tags in white optimization and don't repeat on new pages then you can work on your keywords

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The META KEYWORDS tag isn't very important anymore. Search engines normally ignore them. Its the META DESCRIPTION and TITLE tags that do matter. And yes, you're suppose to pick a few keywords and then stuff them into the title and description for best results. Then build backlinks accordingly.

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sorry.. I'm very new to this.. meta tags in white optimization, could you clarify what you mean by this? also, what do you mean by "work on your keywords"? I've got high pr backlinks to build w/ those keywords, not sure if that is in the area of what you mean.

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Adnan959 said: ↑

The META KEYWORDS tag isn't very important anymore. Search engines normally ignore them. Its the META DESCRIPTION and TITLE tags that do matter. And yes, you're suppose to pick a few keywords and then stuff them into the title and description for best results. Then build backlinks accordingly.
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This is what I did.. is this what you mean?

Putting Meta Tags Back In

To add meta tags to your site, simply add them to the header.php template file in your WordPress Theme, specifically in the head section near the link for the style sheet. At the top you will see the DOCTYPE tag and below that you will see a couple more tags and then the <title> tag, looking something like this:

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title />

Below this line you can add your meta tags. You can add meta tag information such as the content, language, author, contact, and copyright, since these are basically the same on every page of your site.

But what about the 'dynamic' types of information such as description and keywords? This information is unique to every web page on your site. Putting them in the header.php means the information won't change throughout your site.

What you need is something to dynamically add keywords and descriptions on a per-post basis. To add a description, keywords, and other meta tags that are unique to each post or Page generated, you have two choices: you can add them as generic references or you can use plugins.
Generic Meta Tags

If you have a clear purpose for your website, then you can use that information to create generic meta tags and place these in your header. Let's say Harriet Smith is a veterinarian, and enjoys sharing her animal stories on her WordPress blog.

A description meta tag that would describe all of her posts might be:

<meta name="description" content="Special stories and
tales about dogs, cats, birds, ferrets, and other
domestic animals as told by Harriet Smith,
veterinarian. Stories include tales of animal
bravery and courage, life and death, companionship,
and the wonderful joy animals and pets bring to
their human partners." />

If Harriet writes a story about a dog giving birth in the middle of a hurricane, and accompanying the dog were two humans who risked their lives to stay with the dog during the delivery, the descriptive words of bravery and courage, life and death, pets and human, would surely apply. Another story about an animal that returns home to its owner after missing for 5 years might also be described with the words of bravery, courage, life, death, and companionship.

From these two stories, Harriet could create a good generic set of keywords:

<meta name="keywords" content="stories, tales,
harriet, smith, harriet smith, storytelling, veterinarian,
vets, animal doctor, bravery, brave, courage, life, lives,
death, dying, pets, human, companionship, dog, cat, birds,
ferrets, pets, pet, birth, puppies" />

With these generic description and keywords meta tags, Harriet's website would be accurately described and that should please just about any search engine.
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I think you should plugin for meta tags, keywords for SEO

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any ideas on how to get the keywords properly set up?

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his is the title code in my header section:

<title><?php
/*
* Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
*/
global $page, $paged;

wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );

// Add the blog name.
bloginfo( 'name' );

// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
echo " | $site_description";

// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

?></title>
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should the keywords be in there, in the description? also.. how many keywords is good to work with?

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You should create keyword rich posts for your blog with good onpage seo.

oliva, Jul 4, 2011 IP

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