meta tag keywords - search engine optimization [#85384]

How can I add keywords to the meta tags on my site to improve search engine performance? If I am not mistaken, I think the search engines get a lot/most of their successful searches by the page name which is great in Drupal sites for the most part as the page name displays site name | page name (and with the help of page_title.module you can add more info) but I see other sites source show that they have other meta information associated with their site to provide more keywords.

I am sure Drupal has somewhere that you can add this...I just can't find it. I am a bit surprised there isn't a field in the admin/settings to put more meta tags / keywords.

Comments

Comment #2

TheWhippinpost commented 29 September 2006 at 15:13

Don't stress over the Keyword META.

I might also add that the META descriptions tag is only used (by Google at least) to afford you an alternative way of controlling what appears in the snippet Google uses in the result pages (SERPS), it doesn't affect rankings, but it might - if worded correctly - increase click-thru's because you can make your message more appealing (than Google would otherwise do).

Comment #3

mdowsett commented 10 November 2006 at 21:12

so how can I put META tags in to HELP Google searches. I've done all the steps in the smorgasbord.net document on SEO but my rank hasn't improved. It's a new site so maybe things just haven't kicked in yet (reindexed).
Any tips are appreciated.

Comment #5

magico commented 10 January 2007 at 15:27

Status:

Active

» Fixed

Closing support requests older than 1 month.

Comment #7

25 January 2007 at 06:15

Status:

Fixed

» Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Comment #8

1kenthomas commented 30 November 2007 at 23:03

NOTE:
http://www.marketverticalpartners.com/2007/11/05/googles-nofollow-rule.html

I wouldn't suggest purchasing your backfollow links.

Comment #10

mdowsett commented 4 March 2008 at 13:38

mdowsett is still here! (see Post #6).

that project that the advice was written for got terminated. the site owner didn't like Drupal (he never understood it) and pulled the plug and had the site redone.

I was thankful for that article tho as it has helped me with numerous other Drupal sites I've done. Great insight!