Nodewords
Back in the day, a website’s meta tags used to be the staple for achieving high rankings in the search engines. However, it was too widely abused as a means for stuffing pages with keywords to try to manipulate the search engine results. As a result the meta tags, mainly keyword and descriptions, have lost much of their significance for web site optimization purposes. This varies between the major search engines.
Google does not index the meta keywords and does not use them to factor for rankings. It does, however, index the description and often uses it in the search engine results pages. But the description plays little importance for SEO. The meta keywords and descriptions are still important to Yahoo and MSN.
As a rule of thumb, use meta keywords sparingly, keeping them as general as possible. Avoid using your most important keywords because it is easy for competitors to scrap your site to find them. Also, make sure that the keywords you do use are included in the body content of your site. You don’t want them to be off topic.
Take the time to write effective descriptions. They should support your title tags. When you leave out the meta descriptions, the search engines may pull content from your site that might not be very compelling to a user.
For control over your meta tags in Drupal, use the Nodewords module. To configure it, navigate to Administer > Content Management > Meta Tags. Here you can specify global keywords that will display on every page. It is not necessary to have these. Below, you have the option to include terms from your vocabulary lists. These will appear before the global keywords but after the page specific keywords.
Under Tags to show on edit form, select which tags you want to be able to manage on your content edit pages. You only need to check keyword and descriptions. This will be the same for tags to output in html head.
Remember, when it comes to meta tags, less is more.
Anthony Brophy
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It is important for good SEO to have page titles and descriptions. Page titles are generated by default with Drupal, but you need to install the Nodewords module to enable descriptions.
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not working with taxonomy
hi,
I've used nodewords on drupal 6.3 and was not able to get the keywords specific to the vocabulary/terms. However, I get the page specific and global keywords.
I would like to share a small tip for other users. I have enabled Meta Tags as a block on my (local) website so that there's no need to check the HTML source if the meta tags have been added..they're visible on right menubar, top, footer..just wherever you want them!
Thanks,
Vidhya Shankar
Re: not working with taxonomy
I got it figured out.
There was a bug in the keywords.inc file
function nodewords_keywords_prepare()
calls taxonomy_node_get_terms with the first parameter as $ids[0]
whereas it should be node_load($ids[0])
Vidhya Shankar
Update
The meta tags settings for Drupal 6 are basically the same as noted above.
I also want to add that in some occasions, I will enable the robots meta tag. This will allow you to specify nofollow or noindex at the file level rather than updating the robots text file.
Warning:Use the Geourl tag with caution. When this tag is enabled on your site, it will generate a DC.title tag. Some Drupalers have reported that when they enabled this on their site, Google treated this as a duplicate title issue and their site dropped considerably in rankings. Once they removed this tag, the rankings bounced back after a week or two.
I have not yet tested this.
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All clear
In the version 5.x-1.12 of nodewords it is possible to turn off the DC.title-tags independent from geourl-tags. Please have a look at the closed issue: http://drupal.org/node/276838.
So you can use the Geourl tag without hesitation.
But you should be cautious about the DC.title-Tag because this seems to produce the same content for all pages that are no nodes.
Please have a look at: http://drupal.org/node/369738
Nice Post!!
It is important for good SEO to have page titles and descriptions. Page titles are generated by default with Drupal, but you need to install the Nodewords module to enable descriptions.Download the Nodewords module from drupal.org/project/nodewords/. As usual, I got a big tar.gz file, which for me was nodewords-5.x-1.5.tar.gz. I uncompressed that into a "nodewords" folder on my harddrive with WinZip. I uploaded that whole folder to my Drupal server under the how to play craps sites/all/modules directory. Next go into Administer >> Site Building >> Modules and enable Meta tags.