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Post by workathome2014 on Dec 17, 2013 9:34:45 GMT -8
where do I place my meta tags?
thanks in advance
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Tim Camara
Teach a man to fish, etc., etc.
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Post by Tim Camara on Dec 17, 2013 9:42:58 GMT -8
Meta tags should go in between the <head> and </head> tags in your Admin Area > Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper template.
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Post by tpgettys on Apr 14, 2015 17:47:19 GMT -8
Meta tags should go in between the <head> and </head> tags in your Admin Area > Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper template. Will these tags be embedded in all the pages created for my forum? If not, is there a way to put meta tags in other pages? |
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Post by Tim Camara on Apr 15, 2015 7:08:05 GMT -8
They will be.
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Post by chickadee on Apr 17, 2015 13:41:52 GMT -8
got a couple of questions. How do meta tags work? where do you get them?
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Post by Tim Camara on Apr 17, 2015 15:18:10 GMT -8
Meta tags are basically tags that contain meta information about a page that is typically only used by browsers and search engines (occasionally apps and stuff too). A full (and more technical) breakdown can be had here: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta. Generally you do not need to add any meta tags to your forum. The most common and useful ones are already supplied for you dynamically to match your forum. |
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Post by tpgettys on Apr 29, 2015 11:35:29 GMT -8
got a couple of questions. How do meta tags work? where do you get them? Hi chickadee, You may wish to use the description meta tag: and perhaps the keyword meta tag: here is an example from a site I use:
<meta name="keywords" content="photoshop, elements, adobe, photography, images, editing, graphics, scrapbooking, wacom" />
<meta name="description" content="User forum for Adobe Photoshop Elements, sponsored by Photoshop Elements Techniques" />Copy those lines into your Head section, replacing the content with whatever makes sense for your forum. |
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Teach a man to fish, etc., etc.
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Post by Tim Camara on Apr 29, 2015 15:00:25 GMT -8
Just as a note, adding a description meta tag can actually hurt your SEO if the keywords in your meta tag differ from the keywords present on the page it's used on. Also, the keywords meta tag is generally considered a bad idea these days, with Google just ignoring it and Bing using it as an indicator that you might be a spam website.
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"Love is the fruit of understanding"
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Post by lilacsky on May 28, 2015 8:48:59 GMT -8
Hello there, I was just about to add meta tags and figured I'd look into it first. Can you or someone explain how this works and how they are already supplied to match the criteria of my forum? Thank you for any help, oh and I have put meta tags into the forum years ago however when I go into my headers and footers all my previous code is MIA not there..  |
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Post by Kami on May 28, 2015 18:57:30 GMT -8
Hello there, I was just about to add meta tags and figured I'd look into it first. Can you or someone explain how this works and how they are already supplied to match the criteria of my forum? Thank you for any help, oh and I have put meta tags into the forum years ago however when I go into my headers and footers all my previous code is MIA not there..??? The meta tags you used before are gone because the H/F were cleared with the v5 update. There was a period of time where you could recover that information, but if I recall correctly that's gone by now. (Note: V5 was released ~2012 or so, so it's been several years since this happened).
If I recall correctly as well, meta tags are mostly obsolete because search engine bots now look over the whole website in order to pick out the most commonly occurring words and phrases and generates your keywords from that, but I could be wrong.
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Post by cfriends on Aug 13, 2015 3:28:03 GMT -8
Meta tags should go in between the <head> and </head> tags in your Admin Area > Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper template. Thank you. You have helped me to solve this problem I've been struggling with for about 2 weeks! |
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