The Online Shop Designer Blog » description http://www.tosd.com.au Melbourne Website Design Services are provided by The Online Shop Designer (TOSD) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The importance of good meta page descriptions http://www.tosd.com.au/2009/05/the-importance-of-good-meta-descriptions/ http://www.tosd.com.au/2009/05/the-importance-of-good-meta-descriptions/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:18:03 +0000 tosd http://www.tosd.com.au/?p=1133 Whether you have a modern CMS such as CMS Made Simple, or and online shop based on Prestashop or Viart, the facility exists for administrators to insert meta information to describe the page to search engines.  Here are some good references I have come across to help with this task:

And this is a nice article on writing page titles just to round off the subject. While titles are arguably not as imortant as descriptions they are still relevant:

And what about meta keywords?

Well, the truth is that they are no longer very relevant at all. Still, if you would like to use them ensure that you use no more than about 5-6 words. Long lists of keywords are more likely to have your site flagged for spamming.

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