I've just made my first proper website and to make my life easier for updating stuff I've made a header.php file which I include in ever page. It contanins the navbar and also all the meta tags. I'm just wondering if this is bad pratice as every page has the same few keywords, description etc. Should I get rid of it and have unique keywords and description relevant to each page or is it worth the extra hassel as I know Google pretty much ignores them. Site in question is http://linkzbot.com/ Any thoughts?
If you pull the META data for each page from a database and have PHP parse it on the corresponding pages then you won't have that problem.
ya that's true and it's what most other site's do I think. It's a bit of work though as I'm not the best or fastest at coding but I'll look into it. Thanks
It will be better (than nothing) if you can make them unique but if it costs you a lot (in terms of effort) then its also not that important and you can ignore them. There are many site that appears in top SERPs with no meta info, with same meta info and with unique meta info.
You can do this 2 things.... 1) Remove meta tags like keywords and description tags google will take it from your contents. 2) other then that i do for most of my projects is use variables in your header like $title, $keywords etc etc and then assign the values to these variables as per per on every page
yeahm headers effects the seo. Title, meta description both are very important for seo. But, the remaining are not that much important. If you have a good content following keyword dencity, you can manage without description also. But, description is recommended.