Thanks Brogan but wont that mean the same keywords will display on every page of the site?
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I'm going to ask Kier to put you in the Discouraged User group to slow you downedit - Brogan wins this round
They DO use it. You just don't see it. It is an algorithm overlay.I understood that search engines don't use meta tags these days?
Err, no: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html Google makes no use of meta keywords. Description is used though.They DO use it. You just don't see it. It is an algorithm overlay.
It goes together with description. So any word that you intentionally target, with keywords are found in bolded in results.
For example, a person throws a whip at a stick, will try to repel it to himself. That's exactly what Google and other SE's do with the keywords in meta.
so for the "Board Meta Description", what should I put into this field ?
I mean: what is the best for SEO ?
Just single keywords separated by a comma or rather full sentence descriptions ?
Additionally, I do not get why the Forum-title is the same as the Title which appears at the very top-left in the browser ?
Is this intended design by XF and what is the advantage of this ? Having a rather long Forum-Title unfortunately also gives a very long "Sender name" on the system-E-Mails which are being send, which is rather confusing for the user when the sender-name is at the length of a full sentence.
But I would like to have a longer Board-Title in order to improve on the SEO.
Am I wrong in my thinking ?
What happens to SEO if my Board-Title says "myDomain.com" ? Is this bad for SEO ?
The meta information like the title and description doesn't affect your page rank on Google. Page rank is a function of link exposure which comes as a result of having good content on your site that people link to. Content is king. It's not like you can improve the standing of your site on Google by changing your page title and description.
If you are curious about the details of Google's page rank algorithm then read this wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Note that the meta description changes to use actual page content for pages like threads. But on pages like the index it uses the description you define in the options.
so for the "Board Meta Description", what should I put into this field ?
I mean: what is the best for SEO ?
Just single keywords separated by a comma or rather full sentence descriptions ?
so for the "Board Meta Description", what should I put into this field ?
I mean: what is the best for SEO ?
Just single keywords separated by a comma or rather full sentence descriptions ?
Additionally, I do not get why the Forum-title is the same as the Title which appears at the very top-left in the browser ?
Is this intended design by XF and what is the advantage of this ? Having a rather long Forum-Title unfortunately also gives a very long "Sender name" on the system-E-Mails which are being send, which is rather confusing for the user when the sender-name is at the length of a full sentence.
But I would like to have a longer Board-Title in order to improve on the SEO.
Am I wrong in my thinking ?
What happens to SEO if my Board-Title says "myDomain.com" ? Is this bad for SEO ?
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