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18 responses to “Can I use Meta Description in Tags?”
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An excellently written post. Well long tailed titlee has its advantage but 160 charcters is too long. a keyword is max as yous aid 5 to 6 words long. Include it in titile its no more than 60 to 65 character. Long tags can earn the bad name of a spam as well. Its better to avoid them I guess.
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You are absolutely right Datta 🙂 Thank you for sharing your opinion with us.
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I am not particularly sure Alok. I mean I have got my posts on the search engine sometimes cos the searched term has been same as what I have used in my meta description or in the article. My thought is – the meta description is a smaller version of your entire post. If the reader is searching for something and this is matched against the meta description then it is pretty awesome.
Having said that, since I use yaost, they ask for a focus keyword and for good seo practices it is said that I have to use the focus keyword in the metadescription as well. So I guess it makes sense having only one tag in that , the one tag which we think matters most. If we do too much of it, it becomes repetitive, but maybe having that focus word makes sense..
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Absolutely right buddy, but are you sure that people searches for meta description in Google and lands to your site? I have a doubt about it.
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Not very sure about it Alok.. But sometimes it has landed there, as in – in those posts my wordings were different and I kinda felt that they came through the meta description.. Of course they both were related though.. So I am not very sure,..
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I do agree Vinay that people were searching for long tail keywords, but I seriously doubt that they will search for such a long sentence. 🙂
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To answer this question – I think it makes sense to have keyword in meta description but the other way round would just be repetitive and redundant. Might not make most sense..
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Hmm, I guess you are right.
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I think I use short ones..though I’m not very sure.. you know me, almost blind about such technicalities 😛
I learnt a lot from you… 🙂
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🙂 That is a great complement for me Maniparna. I am really glad that I have been able to teach something to you 🙂 Thank you so much for this honor. 🙂
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Lengthy tags surely does not look good, small and apt are what tags meant for.
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Absolutely correct Meenal 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing your opinion with us.
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Still figuring out the details of Blogging, Alok.
I am not aware of so much info like Meta-tags 🙂-
Hmmm, I guess soon you will know all of them 🙂
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Agree with your opinion on meta description in tags. Tags are mainly for grouping and organizing blog posts. It is not always possible to create too specific categories as it will clutter the blog. But one can be more specific with tags. For example, I can categorize my India travel blog with the names of states I have travelled. But it is not possible to create a category for every city, town and village I visit. In that case I can use keywords in form of tags to further specify my post. It will help readers to find posts on that particular topic in my blog. However, as far as I know about WordPress it does not appreciate too many tags. So it is better to keep tags short and specific to avoid spamming.
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Absolutely correct Moon, very much delighted that you liked it and shared you opinion with us. Thank you so much 🙂
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No, I feel meta description is too long and certainly cannot be used in tags for the reasons you have shared above.
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Absolutely correct Rachna, thanks for sharing your opinion and supporting my point of view… 🙂
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