subject: Meta Tag Automation: How To Set Up Your Wordpress Blog To Create Automated Meta Tags [print this page] The majority of internet users find what they are looking for online by typing it into a search engine, so if you own and operate your own website then the way that the listing for your site shows up in the search engines is very important. Even if you have a great website or blog with valuable and original content, the way that the search engine listing appears for your website may look very strange sometimes and it may not display your website in a way that would make people want to click on it.
One of the most important factors for making changes to the way that your website shows up in the search engines are the meta tags on each web page, and the most important meta tags are the description and keyword tags. This information is not displayed on a regular web page but instead it is for the benefit of the search engines, and certain search engine optimization professionals say that you should include custom meta tags for each page on your website. While this is the best practice, in reality it can be very painstaking and time consuming to add a custom meta description to every page.
It is the meta description tag that determines what descriptive text shows up in the search engine listing for a page on your website or blog, and if you want the benefit of having a custom description for each page without the need to write it out manually each time then it is a good idea to use a software plug-in that will automate the process. If you are using the WordPress blogging software then there are a number of search engine optimization (SEO) plug-ins that have the ability to automatically generate meta description and keyword tags based on the content on the page.
If you publish a lot of new content on your blog then this is a great time-saving feature to incorporate into your blog, since it could take hours to write out custom meta tags for every new post that you make. Once you install and configure this software to work then you can literally "set it and forget it" and you will have automatically generated titles and meta tags for every new post on your blog. Most of the free WordPress SEO plug-ins come with this feature built-in, however you must go into the settings and make sure that this feature is enabled for the meta tags to be generated automatically, which will improve the appearance of your website's search engine listings.
