Adding Meta Tags to WordPress Pages

Dear Christina,

How do you add meta tags to your pages?

Thanks in advance.

Tahneesha Smith – A Virtual Blessing

Dear Taneesha,

Adding Meta tags to your WordPress site is really good SEO practice.

Those tags help the search engines categorize your pages more efficiently, which makes it easier for a potential client to find exactly what they are looking for.
Hopefully that’s you.

Adding separate tags for each page/post is not the best idea, but it is possible.

The easiest way is to install the All In One SEO plugin. This plugin is streamlined for the best WordPress SEO.

Once installed you can set your Meta tags, descriptions and keywords for your entire site and then, customize them all for each individual page or post as you want.

At the bottom of each page/post you’ll see this (you’ll see the same plus tons more options on the settings tab for this plugin):

Examples for each section:

Title: This is the title you want at the top of your(and your visitor’s) browser- if you look at the very top left corner of your browser window right now you’ll see “Adding Meta Tags to Pages | Dear Christina”

That’s my title for this page/post. I configured All In One SEO from the settings tab in my dashboard, so the title changes with the post. I don’t have to do anything except maybe add some additional keywords for this one post.

Description: The description should be short and sweet. This is not the place to explain your entire business, just a quick blurb that gives searches a reason to click to your site.

Keywords: Don’t go overboard here either. A few choice keywords go a long way. Enter only those that your target client may be searching for.

Title Attribute & Menu Label: I don’t touch these.

Disable on this page/post: Only check this box if you don’t want the page/post indexed by the search engines.

I hope my answer helps you in your SEO efforts.

~Christina