Hi, how to I edit meta tags in ElkArte? I want to add a description and keywords to my forum for indexing. Also, I can't seem to find an option that will let me change my forum's name. Where do I find that?
For the forum's name look into the server settings please. keywords and desc are in features & options.
Thanks for your help. :)
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.it/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html
Why the heck do we have a setting to edit the meta tag keywords?
It's a waste of space...
/me votes for removal
The description is automatically generated according to the content of the page, that should be enough in most if not all of the cases I think. ;)
Because there are other search engines out there?
And any of them is relevant (maybe bing or yandex in certain areas are) or does use keywords meta tag?
http://selfstoragemagnet.com/tech/seo-tech/meta-keyword-tag-google-yahoo-or-bing/
http://www.baiduguide.com/baidu-seo-guide/meta-tags/
http://help.yandex.com/webmaster/controlling-robot/html.xml
So, from what I can gather, only yandex
may use keywords, while bing (and maybe others) use the meta keywords mainly to catch and penalize spammers rather than to gain any meaningful info from it.
What would you risk?
Not lose anything from not using it, or risk of being marked as spam by most of them to
maybe please one? (That has apparently less than 0.5% usage share, but of course these data may not be so accurate.)
People seem to aggressively dislike meta tags :/
I'm not disliking meta tags in general.
I know description is useful.
I just don't see nowadays any reason to have the keywords meta tag. Unless used for other that search engines. ;)
And if I may sound aggressive... well, not my intention.
I have always looked at it as it doesn't hurt to have more SEO than less.
+1 for removal of keywords tag