meta tags

[scrawnybob]

this is probably a daft question - at the moment I've got the same tag for every page on my site I think only the description one is filled in

The webdesigner is sorting all of this side of things and didn't seem keen to have to do separate meta tags / descriptions / keyword tags for every page - He's using php and was "going to look into the best way of doing it"

from what Ive read here it seems to be pretty important ??

Will having different tags / descriptions specific to each page make a big difference to SEO etc ?

how is it best to go about putting all these different descriptions in and which are the most important tags to do ?

sorry if this is the most retarded SEO question ever asked on here

cheers Rob

scrawnybob http://www.4kingpoker.com

[PPP]

You should have a different
You should have a different description for every page.
You should have different keywords for each page (or alternately no keywords... having them be the same on all pages is by far the worst.)
It is very important to not be sloppy and just make all these the same. If you web designer won't do this, either do it yourself or get a different web designer.


"Content-Type" can all be the same.
"Content-Language" of course should relate to the language of the page.
You don't need other meta tags, but you can have them if you have special needs like you don't want pages indexed, etc.

[GregK]

Here are 2 more that I always include...




The first stops that stupid IE image widget from appearing everytime you hover over an image & the 2nd stops another of MS's assbrain ideas...SmartTags!

Where they would replace YOUR ads & links on YOUR website with THEIR ads using their Smartags adware in IE!

I think SmartTags suffered a firey painful death, not sure?

[Karl]

Hi Bob.

I am also a newbie and I skipped over doing different meta tags for different pages in my 1st site. Only since reading the Free SEO Ebok am I realising the importance of little things like this. I can not reccomend the ebook enough if you are building your first site.

The reason I did not do different metatags for each page was my web designer friend I partnered with included the metatags on code for the side menu which is actually a different page (a .tpl file rather than .php I beleive). Maybe your designer has done something similar.

Thanks for the info on those other 2 metatags Greg I think I will include them on my new project.

[GregK]

I was trying to remember a more recent scam like this & I finally did, its Google thats up to no good this time!

http://www.google-watch.org/toolbar.html

This article explains G's new hijack plan on Books/ISBN #'s & a quick mention about the old Smart tags.
Guess who the inventor of MS's SmartTags works for now? lol

cheers

[scrawnybob]

Hi Guys

thanks for all the input really useful - The deisgner isn't really a SEO expert and ive kind of been leading him by the nose - in fairness not having any clue about it myself either - the design is all mine (for good or bad) and I just tell him what i want until its right.

It took him a while to get his head round anything "poker" being impossible to get high ranked just because it is a poker site.

I have no access to the server thing and wouldnt know what to do if i had - some of the stuff on the site i can update through php boxes and links he's set up - things like tournie dates, links and adding articles - beyond that i dont meddle.

I offered to sit down and enter it all myself if he showed me where the 3 meta tag things are on whatever it is you need to enter it - but he didnt seem that sure it could be done that easily -

Is it possible if its all been done in vbulletin / php that it isnt as straight forward as i would think ?

I take it if i havent got access to the server i cant do anything anyway ?

cheers Rob (scrawnybob)