Comments on: How to Write Meta Tags and Descriptions

By: Ronnie Meiggs

Ronnie Meiggs — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:56:00 +0000

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Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:57:18 +0000

[...] How to Write Meta Tags and Descriptions: Provides general guidance on writing meta tags and descriptions, with strong warnings against over-stuffing meta information, with keywords and phrases. [...]

By: Tracois Edwards

Tracois Edwards — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:05:24 +0000

I am very grateful for this very valuable information. Great advice!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:12:10 +0000

Hi Shannon,
Great advice, thanks for the additional meta tag tips and for reading!

By: MuscleFire

MuscleFire — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:54:03 +0000

yep, great article! stuffing is not really going to be very well liked whether you’re a site visitor or a spider. well written tags and content rule!

By: Shannon Lowe

Shannon Lowe — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:01:41 +0000

Great information, Nick. I agree 100%. In response to one of the other comments regarding format, I have found a fair amount of success for our clients using title tags with 50-70 characters (including spaces) in the format Key phrase 1 Geo target | Key phrase 2 or Key phrase 1 Geo target | Company Name. In page descriptions, I shoot for 150+/- characters using 2 primary key phrases early in a marketing style sentence, enticing the click-through. I hope that helps.

By: Pete C

Pete C — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:38:08 +0000

Agree. People keep telling me not to worry about meta tags any more however once you page is set up it you don’t need to usually make any changes so I think it is worth the effort.

@Bill Oneil if you want a few examples look at our web pages at http://www.acarda.com, you will see we target different keywords on different pages all to do with call center software and telemarketing software.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:48:49 +0000

Hi Michael,
Agreed! There are many newbie SEO companies that sometimes don’t grasp the importance of well written meta tags…

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:09:19 +0000

I always think meta tags is very important although Google says that is not much important for search result.

Our website: http://www.herahair.com is doing like this and we are trying do better.

By the way, the above comment is very good, brief and clear. I like that.

By: Bill ONeill

Bill ONeill — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:45:17 +0000

The information was very informative and I will re-check my meta tags. I think it would have helped even more if you had added some examples of the meta tag layout.

By: Barbara Bruce

Barbara Bruce — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:38:48 +0000

How can so much specific, useful information be crammed into such little space! You guys are terrific! Keep it up!!

By: Michael Mercadante

Michael Mercadante — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:26:55 +0000

Well said Nick! I’ve seen a lot of companies out there jumping on the SEO Services bandwagon who could use this straightforward advice.

By: virtual assistant service provider

virtual assistant service provider — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:23:21 +0000

Some good practices for title tags
• Choose a title tag which accurately describe the webpage content
• Choose a unique title tag for each page to help search engine know how the page is distinct from the others pages.
• Use the name of your website or brand at the end of every title tag to create brand awareness.
• Don’t stuff unneeded keywords in your title tags
• Use brief, but descriptive titles because Google display only approximately 65 characters of the title and some search engine display more.
• Use the most important keywords at the beginning of your title
• Use a separator like “|” or “-“ between keywords
• Using your title tag as H1 header can be very valuable
• Use relevant keyword phrases
• Choose the title tags keeping in mind the searcher not search engine