Confused about Meta on every page of the site

Do we put them deeper than the index.html page?

[Diane]

Hi everyone! First I'd like to thank you all. I've been reading here and learning a lot. I have not had the opportunity as of yet to put any of this information to practical application. Therefore, our company had a meeting with a consultant yesterday who has had success. He had implemented everything that I had already learned here. Thank you very much.

The consultant said, however, that if you place meta tags on every page of the site, the deep level crawlers will become confused by them. I don't understand this to be the case. It is my understanding that meta information is placed (title, description, keywords) on every page of the site and that they should be unique to that page, further defining it into specifics from the index.html page. Now this man said put meta only on the index.html page.

Would this not hinder those search engine spider technologies that are not deep level but only crawl one page at a time? Any help in understanding this would be truly appreciated.

[Hope]

I have never heard that. I put meta info on all pages and have had no problem with spiders.

[DaveAtIFG]

Same here ladies. Some SEs are beginning to look for a web site's theme and offer a boost to sites that appear to have a clear theme over a site that is just a collection of pages. I'm thinking this lack of metas would undermine that theme aspect as well as the individual pages.

[Air]

Just to add a fourth voice to all of you - never heard or experienced what the consultant suggests.

[FreeBee]

5th voice: definitely add meta tags to each and every page despite the non-use by some SE's.

[eljefe3]

When I started on my first site no one told me not to make every page look good for the search engines. I had a site about a particular subject and so I made every page for a specific topic relating to that subject and included a clickable description and the necessary meta tags (2 years ago) etc. etc. These pages have pretty much been in all the major SE's since the first listing.
I'm a firm believer in having every page coded up just as you would your home page. Dot the i's and cross the t's per say. The more pages you have, the better chance of people finding you.

[rencke]

Absolutely. Putting meta on one page only is the same as putting all your eggs in one basket. And make sure it is not the same meta. Vary according to the theme of each page. That way you can cover a lot more keywords (and themes, if the site has more than one.)

[WebRookie]

Just joining in, yes, use meta tags on all pages. We use meta on every page and have plenty of spider visits.

[Diane]

Thanks! This is what I figured. Thank you all for your help! I love this forum! I read more than post because I'm learning so don't have much to contribute. That being said, I dont' want to abuse the forum, so I typically just look throughout the web for answers. Thank you so much for your help!

[DaveAtIFG]

Hey Diane

>I dont' want to abuse the forum

With that attitude your questions will always be welcome! Remember, newbie questions are valuable to beginners/lurkers, they often bring up issues that the "experts" assume everyone knows.

Also, and this is a big help, your question was extremely well framed! Big, broad, non-specific questions often burn up a lot of bandwidth just trying to determine what the individual really needs to know...

I am looking forward to reading more from you.

Dave

[eljefe3]

Diane,

Welcome to the WMW Forums. I took a quick look at your site. Love that email harvester comment on your source code!

[Diane]

LOL Actually that is courtesy of Worldzone.net! They automatically put it up there on the pages! Thank you for looking and for the welcome.