[Express] multiple meta tags

I am seeing multiple description and keyword meta tags on my pages.

I assume that whatever tags I put on the master page will show up on all pages, and the individual pages will show their own as well.

My problem is that I don’t have any description or keyword tags on my master page. And the description is an old one that I am trying to eliminate.

Any ideas?


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Perhaps the link has been broken between the Master and the Child pages. When you create a Master page and then create a Child page (which is what is in the site folder in the site panel and you then make changes to the Child page it will break the link between the two. Any further changes you make to the Master will not show up on the altered Child page.

Perhaps it would be best to copy out the keywords and description to TextEdit and then start over on the META tag part and just re-paste them in. Beware though, it may cause a disturbance in the force by doing so. Publish first, before Saving to see if that worked out.


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Maybe one of you experts could chime in here about a related question.

Mike’s keywords - electrician,rewire,upgrade,service,trouble shooting,residential,repairs,fuse box,remodel - as you can see run into each other with no spaces between them. Does this affect things detrimentally? Are they seen as one biiiiig keyword or are the bots smart enough?

I know that keywords don’t have the same oomph as they used to have but does this affect things?

David


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Keywords may be space-delimited or comma-delimited. The words will
each be treated separately.

Walter

On Apr 23, 2009, at 5:56 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

Mike’s keywords - electrician,rewire,upgrade,service,trouble
shooting,residential,repairs,fuse box,remodel - as you can see run
into each other with no spaces between them. Does this affect things
detrimentally? Are they seen as one biiiiig keyword or are the bots
smart enough?


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So in Mike’s example he is comma delimiting that’s OK - but when he has ‘trouble shooting’ in there as well how is that perceived?

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I don’t know what each search engine does with a string like that, but I imagine they treat it as a two word phrase.

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Here’s an interesting article from 2007 that goes into detail about what search
engines do with keywords, and specifically, what how some seem to completely
ignore them;
http://searchengineland.com/meta-keywords-tag-101-how-to-legally-hide-words-on-your-pages-for-search-engines-12099
Regards,
Tim.

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I don’t know what each search engine does with a string like that, but I
imagine they treat it as a two word phrase.

Walter

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Thanks for that Tim - and I am assuming that up to 2 years on the conclusion is the same.

Forget the keywords Metatag - except maybe for adding mis-spellings and then they will only be noted by half the crawlers, or is it less now?

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How do I get things back in-sync?

Master has ONLY 1 meta tag (aside from the generator) - verify-v1.

index page has 2 - Description and Keywords
rest only have 1 - Description.

What shows up is - Keyword and Description from Master (I think, through there aren’t any there any more) - and the ones that are suppose to be there.

The Descriptions are different from each other. The older one (starts with “Serving”) shouldn’t exist any more. Where is it coming from?


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Check your pages - I think that you may have some added markup in there. Have a look in Page>HTML Markup - does it have a tick next to it in the menu. If it does then there is extra markup in there in After Head or before End Head (especially on your index page - haven’t looked at the others)

You can take it out of there and just use the Meta Tags on your Master

David


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Thanks. I had forgotten that I had put something in there a while back. There was some kind of bug with meta tags in the previous release (I think) and that was the work-around.


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