I’ve been quite lucky with my this new Lots of Freebies blog as within a week Google had indexed a few of the blog pages I had created but I knew that was too easy. Unfortunately the summary that appears below the page title didn’t appear to be appropriate and resembled more about the layout than the content as it basically listed the links within the top navigation bar of the site. As you can imagine this is not very helpful and it certainly does not make the content look like it has any relevance to the page.
On further investigation I found that WordPress does not include the meta keywords or meta description in the page header… so it appears that I’ve come across another part of WordPress that I need to tweak. I can actually understand the reasoning behind removing these tags which is that:-
- WordPress can not read your mind so it cannot create dynamic keyword and descriptions for each page, or at least it cannot with any great focus on the topic.
- Some search engines no longer use these as they are subject to abuse and those of us who are dishonest often add completely irrelevant keywords in order to obtain a better ranking and exposure.
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