HOME

Meta Description in Wordpress

There is a never ending debate between webmasters that meta tags and meta data are either needed or not needed for search engine ranking. One thing is for sure, it is smart to include the meta decription tag in your blog just incase. You can do this with a neato plugin called Head Meta Description (download it here)

Head Meta Description automatically takes a snippet from your content and displays it within the head. It also allows those who like more control over their meta description tag to do the following:

  1. Override the use of the tagline - A tagline that appears on all pages is repetative so it can be removed.
  2. Increase or decrease the length of your description - The default 20 is a good length.
  3. Auto generate an excerpt for the descriptions - Good for most people who do not like to optimize every part of their blog.
  4. Name the custom field key used to override.

For those of you who do not always put keywords in the first sentence of your content (and would like to insert the third of forth sentence) simply cut and paste into the custom fields area in your Wordpress console.

If you click here then to the toolbar in your internet browser and to: View > Source Code you will see that I have chosen to cut and paste the second sentence in this post to be used in my meta description area because it better describes what this post is all about.

Posted by admin 24.May.06

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

« Optimizing Wordpress Cache
Wordpress Meta Tag Generator »