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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Website Optimization # 2

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Hello webmaster, today I will share about Meta Tags. What is meta tags? Is it a kind of delicious food? Well I have delicious pancake at the top right of my main web page. Do you want some? Just click and send me your email address I will send it directly to your mailbox every single day :)
Okay, let's begin. On Page Optimization #2 : Meta Tags.
Meta tags is a bunch of information about our "niche in short" that we need to insert in the "source code". Source code is a HTML or XHTML language (depends on your web engine). If you using blogger as your website engine, simply go to 'Layout' and then press 'Edit HTML'. The HTML language will be displayed on your computer screen. Where should it be placed? Between head and head (I found a problem when I tried to type these tags because it is not allowed by blogger). Okay in order to find the position, press 'alt + F'. Empty 'Find' tab will appear at the left-bottom of your browser. To generate your meta tags, you could go to google and search for 'free meta tags generator'.

There are 3 important items in meta tags: Title, Description and Keywords.

Meta Title. Put your blog's Title between the tags (replace your TITLE here with your title). Only input the main word, without any unnecessary conjunction. Example: Planning A Wedding | Wedding Ring | Wedding Planner. Use separator between each targeted word (separator can be shown by pressing 'shift' together with '\' . Meta title will be appeared at the top of your browser (blue border).



Meta Description should contains your most important information about your blog. It should loaded with all of your Keywords that you've been used in Meta Keyword. Remember to load only the important words.

Meta Keyword should contains some targeted keywords and it should be related to your niche (topic). How many keyword should we use? The answer is: it depends on how long your article is. If your article is quite long and have many keywords in it, you can put 3 - 6 keywords for one page. But in case you wrote short article then you just need to insert 1 targeted keyword.

Tips: Do not add any other Keywords to Meta Keywords and also other Meta Tags if you do not have those keywords in your content.

Conclusion: Meta Tags (=Meta Title + Meta Keywords + Meta Description) should contain the same targeted keywords without any unnecessary words.

Note: Especially for blogger, just note that not all template support this meta tags. If you put in your meta tags and the web page running in error, you should pick another template and try again. Have a nice weekend.


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