Good evening and Happy Thanksgiving! I am referring to the surfers page here: http://www.surfimages.com/Surfers.aspx I will be changing the address bar from #'s to the surfers names here soon (example: http://www.surfimages.com/alexknost) and I will also be changing the title description and keywords for EVERY surfer. I was going to go something like this: Title: Surf Images - Alex Knost Description: Alex Knost surfing photography, photos, pictures, art, bio, longboarding, singing, skateboarding Keywords: Newport Beach, Blackies, San Diego, Etc. Now here is my question to you, being that a lot of these "surfers" will have the same information being the same surfing spots, etc. will it be bad that I will be repeating a lot of the same description and keywords for each surfers meta tag info?
It will be better if you can change the Title and Description (if not both then at least the Title) for each surfer page. Keywords these days have not much importance so you can stuck with the same value for each page.
Google only looks at your title tags, not the keywords and description. But you may want to add some text in paragraph form to help with seo.
Did I read that right, did you say that Google DOES NOT look at the description tag, Where the hell have you been hiding for the last 12 years! Yes, Google looks at the description tag, in fact google displays my descriptions in their search results for evey single one of my websites (that's 27 websites)
You already have your main keyword in the url and Title, to improve your ranking you should also include it in your Description and Keywords. The Description will be shown under the Title, so you have to give a brief description of your web site to help visitors decide if the site is what they are looking for. Put all the other keywords ( surfing photography, surf pictures etc) under keywords. It might be better to use "surf photos" instead of just "photos". Only include keywords that are related to what you want your site to be known for, I don't know if art, bio and singing will help. Hope this helps Victor Rampen
How you optimize title elements is VERY important. It's the most important on-page ranking factor at pretty much all search engines (including Google). Optimizing your meta description will not affect rankings at Google (Google ignores it when ranking pages), but a well optimized meta description can drastically increase how often your meta description is shown at Google as the Google search snippet and can drastically increase the click-thru-rates when it is snown as the snippet. Optimizing your meta keywords does absolutely nothing for rankings at Google or Bing. Both totally ignore them for ranking purposes.