Dreamweaver Templates and Meta Tags, How To Edit Them to Improve SEO

Source: WikipediaAre you using Dreamweaver templates for your web site to make the management of pages simpler? Have you ever tried to do any SEO and could NOT change the meta tags on specific pages linked to the template? Here is a quick and simple solution that will get your site ready for SEO.

Open up your page template and look at your template in code view. Locate where your meta tags begin and insert the following line just before the first tag.

<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="meta or whatever you want to name it here" -->

After the last meta tag insert this line

<!– TemplateEndEditable –>

Ok, you should now be able to edit each page associated to the template file and edit the specific meta tags.

This is good practice to get used to. Proper meta tags, and title are key to SEO rankings.

Update to Post: March 28, 2008:

here is more of the HTML code in my dreamweaver template:

<!– TemplateBeginEditable name=”meta” –>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”keywords go here” />
<meta name=”description” content=”description goes here” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow” /><!– robots information –>
<!– TemplateEndEditable –>

You can read other SEO posts on our blog here:

http://blog.springhouse.com/index.php/category/seo/

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