Title and Description Meta Tags

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Title and Description Meta Tags

ultrafade

2:41 pm on May 16, 2012 (gmt 0)

I recently downloaded the site of a new client that I am wanting to add meta tags to their pages. I soon realized that the designer/developer (who he no longer works with) used includes for the header, so it's not letting me update meta tags per page. I have to edit them in the includes header file which makes the changes global. I am not a developer, so I can't re-do his site. Is there any way that I can add a little bit of code to each individual page that will override it pulling meta tags from that includes header file?

Marshall

3:25 pm on May 16, 2012 (gmt 0)

First I have to ask what type of "include" is it? If it is simple a include of another page (page ending in htm, html, php, asp, or inc) and there is something like  in the actual page and not something script driven, you could delete the meta tags from the include then go into each page an manually add them.

Marshall

lucy24

9:39 pm on May 16, 2012 (gmt 0)

you could delete the meta tags from the include then go into each page an manually add them.

If the Include contains the entire <head> element, wouldn't it then be too late to add anything?

I hope this isn't the case, because then the include would have to, er, include a dynamic element to give each page a different title. And then you're in developer territory.

If you're only including the content of the header, you can delete the unwanted <meta> from the include file and put it into each page separately. How many pages are we talking about? I don't think g### would be real thrilled about batches of pages all having the identical meta description, for example. (Was going to say meta keywords, but I think they've simply stopped reading those.)

ultrafade

12:08 am on May 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

That worked! Thanks to you both. Why didn't I think of that?