Optimising Articles for the Search Engines (Meta Description, Meta tags)

staffjam · 08-21-2009, 09:53 AM

My sites are doing pretty well in the search engines for the keywords i've chosen, but all of the articles i write or have had written seem to get nowhere.

I've been a bit sloppy with the meta tags and meta descriptions in my SEO panel - is this something i should correct, as do they make a big difference to the search engines?

If so, for the Meta Description - do you just put an excerpt from the article or do you put the keywords you want the article to rank for in there (obviously so it makes sense and not a case of keyword stuffing.)

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

angilina · 08-23-2009, 12:45 PM

I use wordpress in my sites and I always forget to add my own description when I add a post. I am using SEO plugin that includes the first few words of my post as the description of the page. I think that is helpful but if we can write a summary of our posts/article and include that in the description tag, then that will be better.

The title and description tags are important. You should optimize these two tags.

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staffjam NamePros Regular Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 875	Optimising Articles for the Search Engines (Meta Description, Meta tags) My sites are doing pretty well in the search engines for the keywords i've chosen, but all of the articles i write or have had written seem to get nowhere. I've been a bit sloppy with the meta tags and meta descriptions in my SEO panel - is this something i should correct, as do they make a big difference to the search engines? If so, for the Meta Description - do you just put an excerpt from the article or do you put the keywords you want the article to rank for in there (obviously so it makes sense and not a case of keyword stuffing.) Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. __________________ Buy Domain Names â€“ 9i.com, 3J.com, ZB.org, Foob.com, Wodo.com, Sixth.com â€“ These are just a few of the great names on offer at namecake.com (Click below) Buy Domain Names Solar Garden Lights Virtual Reality Games

08-23-2009, 12:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
angilina NamePros Regular Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 467	I use wordpress in my sites and I always forget to add my own description when I add a post. I am using SEO plugin that includes the first few words of my post as the description of the page. I think that is helpful but if we can write a summary of our posts/article and include that in the description tag, then that will be better. The title and description tags are important. You should optimize these two tags.

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