How do I add Meta Tags to my website/blog created with Wordpress? .: Netfirms 24/7 Support

Meta tags are necessary for your web site to be indexed by Search engines. In our FAQ on submitting sites to search engines (http://support.netfirms.com/article.php?id=480), we show the Meta Tags that are necessary for the site to be indexed (the description and keyword tags).

By default wordpress does not create the necessary meta tags. However, these can be added by you. To add a description and keywords for your blog as a whole, please follow these steps:

1. Login to your Netfirms Control Panel at http://controlpanel.netfirms.com
2. Click Applications
3. Click Wordpress

4. For the WordPress installation you wish to add meta tags to, click the corresponding Admin link

5. Click Presentation
6. Click Theme editor
7. Select the Header Template
8. In the header you will see the following:

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>

Directly under this, enter your meta tags. The resulting code would appear as follows:

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="A description of your site">
<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords, words, describing, your,
site"></head>

NOTE: Remember to enter your own description and keywords.

9. Click Update File

For WordPress 2 users:

The following works in Wordpress 2, but not in v1.5:

To have additional information for your individual posts to allow search engines to index all your posts? To do this, we will use the plugin at:

http://www.raoul.shacknet.nu/2006/01/05/add-meta-tags-wordpress-plugin/

Download the plug in from the above site, and upload the add-meta-tags.php file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory, and activate it in the Plugs section of your Admin section.

This plugin uses your blog's categories as keywords for the post. For description, it will be necessary to enter some text in the Excerpt section when writing your Post.

This will add a description and keywords for each post, allowing your site to be fully indexed by search engines.

How do I add Meta Tags to my website/blog created with Wordpress?

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