meta tag locked in the template

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meta tag locked in the template

engasi

4:09 pm on Jul 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

I am using template. The <meta name="keywords"> and <meta name="description"> tags are locked in the template head section. Will those keywords still work or they won't because they are not in the template editable area? Many thanks for your help.

e.g.
<html><head>
<meta name="keywords" content="Automobile, Auto, car">
<meta name="description" content="OUr company is producing cars">

<title>Auto World</title>

</head>
<body>

Company contents.........

</body>
<html>

oilman

4:34 pm on Jul 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

meta tags are supposed to be in the head section of the page so for starters they are in the right place.

Is this a template for a cms or something where a system pulls it and populates it? or is it just a template where you put in what you want and the 'save-as' whatever page name you want?

If it's part of cms or whatever then it looks like it will use the same metas for each page it generates. You'd have to edit the system itself to change that. If it's just a page you are using to make other pages with you can go ahead and change the metas all you want. Just because they're not between the  tags doesn't mean you can't change it.

engasi

4:41 pm on Jul 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks for your help. It's just a template and it's attached to my other pages. Therefore, all pages has the similar head section because I only use this one template. Here I worry about that people type in the keywords in the search engine and won't find my page because my meta tag are in the lock area of the template. However, According to you, as long as the meta tags are in the head section, those keywords are searchable. Am I right?

Thank again for your kind help!

oilman

4:56 pm on Jul 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

>>lock area of the template

It's not a locked area. It's not blocked or anything like that (search engine spiders will see it). You can edit anything you want on that page. The  tags don't mean anything. Whoever designed the template simply put them in there so you could more easily see where the different areas of the template are. Go ahead and change the <keywords> and <desc> if you like.