How can I make front-page and category pages of my CMS being indexed just by their meta description tag not by their contents (posts, navigation, ...)?
edit: Contents on these pages are generated dynamically and change frequently, so I want to prevent users don't find what they saw in search result summary
edit: Can nosnippet help for this or does it prevent the display of meta description content too?
Also How I can prevent indexing of contents of particular tag in a page?
Add this between your head tags:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
But, Yandex does not care about this which is not respectful.
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I am talking about the Open Graph tag here. Can I put the og meta tag anywhere on the page?
I want to use my detail page image for the og tag, the easiest solution is putting the og:image tag in the body of my page.
Open Graph meta tags should always be nested between <head> tags.
To turn your web pages into graph objects, you need to add basic
metadata to your page. We've based the initial version of the protocol
on RDFa which means that you'll place additional <meta> tags in the
<head> of your web page.
http://ogp.me/#metadata
Additionally, keep in mind that order of the tags matters, especially when dealing with array tags (which includes og:image).
Open Graph Tag should be always always be placed on header tag until knowledge goes.. People please correct me if I am wrong..
When I specify a page as having <meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>, are the description and keywords meta tags looked at by search crawlers? Can I exclude them entirely?
You can exclude them entirely. Meta keywords and description are not used by search engines for indexing. Meta description is only used to display information in search results, but since you don't index your page, it does not make sense to create a description.
The noindex value disallows indexing the content of a document.
When a bot crawls this document, it can of course see everything, which includes the meta-description and meta-keywords, but it may not index this content.
I have a dynamic page, where the contents and title will change based on the parameters in the URL. I want the same to be done for meta tag description. As I don't have a sound knowledge of SEO, I don't know whether it will be valid or not.
Say suppose URL contains word "test"
I will do,
if("test" is present)
{
<title>test</test>
<meta decription="test"/>
}
else
{
<title>test1</test>
<meta decription="test1"/>
}
Can I do this? Does giving two meta tag descriptions for same page work.
It is best practice to have different, on the page content based values of the title element and the meta description for each web page. It is not forbidden by the the HTML5 specification to have multiple <meta name="description" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION"> elements but I would guess that search engines process only the first appearance of the element. So my recommendation would be use one <meta name="description" content="YOUR DESCRIPTION"> element for each page.
As long as you code it server-side (eg in PHP) when the page is generated rather than client-side (javascript) after the page has loaded, then it will be fine. That's how most CMS systems work already.
Done server-side, only one of the description tags will actually appear in the code Google see.
Done client-side, it is likely that they will see no description at all as I don't think many search engines render javascript.
Please suggest me, By writing <meta name="robots" content="nofollow">in the submaster page will include the links of master page or not? Thanks.
example.com/master-page/sub-master-page
AND
example.com/master-page
These both are two different URLs therefore no-following links on one page will not effect the links on the other page.
You will have to include the no-follow meta tags on both the pages separately to make external links no-follow on both the pages:
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow"/>
Every page identified by a unique URL is unique and crawlers index each URL separately. Considering this fact and logic, your meta tag on sub page will not affect the parent page.
Is There any way so that i change the snippet created by google indexing,so that it Drives more Traffic,Making it more Relavent which i can show to the users
Google will choose your search results snippets from the following places (not necessarily in this order):
The page's Meta Description tag
The page's Open Directory Project (ODP) Listing
Page content relevant to the search query
If you do not want Google to use the ODP listing's description then you can tell them not to do so with the following Meta tag:
<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">
If you want to encourage Google to use your Meta Description tag then make sure it is unique to each page. Also make sure it contains an accurate description of the page's content.
In thew absence of an ODP description and Meta Description tag, Google will use a portion of the page's text as the description. This text will contain the closest matches to the search query. I have not seen any official limit to how long this can be but a couple of sentences seems about right.
On a related note, if you don't want a snippet to be shown with a particular page you can use the following Meta tag to prevent one from being shown:
<meta name="robots" content="nosnippet">
See this blog post for Google's tips on using the meta description tag.
According to this site, "The meta description should typically be at most 145 to 150 characters in length as these are the maximum number of characters typically displayed at Yahoo! and Google, respectively."