Add-Meta-Tags WordPress Plugin

Posted by james on Jan 31, 2007 in wordpress | 2 comments

Here is a plugin that EVERY WordPress user should use. Personally, I think the features should be added to the default WordPress installation, but hey, that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon.

So, what does this plugin do? It adds the META tags for Description and Keywords to each blog post, blog home page and blog category. Here’s how it gets these tags, via the “Add-Meta-Tags WordPress Plugin” webpage:

Front Page

• Automatically.
• Customization is possible from the plugin’s configuration panel.

Single Posts

• Automatically.
• Customization of the “description” META tag either via custom excerpt or via custom field.
• Customization of the “keywords” META tag via custom field only.

Static Pages

• No automatic generation of meta tags.
• Customization is possible with custom fields like it can be done in posts.

Category Archive Pages

• The description of the category, if set, is used for the description META tag. The name of the category is always used at the keywords metatag.

I generally add an “Optional Excerpt” to each post describing what the blog post is about. Then this plugin will add that excerpt as the Description Meta Tag.

Most people know that having the Description and Meta tags is important to SEO, though a lot of people are saying that it doesn’t play anywhere NEAR as important a role as it used to. Well, in my mind, it is still VERY important due to the fact that a Search Engine will generally use this “Description” tag as the summary of your webpage in the Search Results. You are quite likely to attract a visitor if they see that your web page has a relevant description.

So go install this plugin!