meta in wordpress

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#1

wordpress gurus - is there any significant reason to have those meta things on your blog? i must admit that i took 'em off, but i could put 'em back on if i needed 'em.

thanks!

#2

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Well, if you have users, or want them, to add comments, you rather need the login portion. It also is nice to have people subscribe to your rss feeds from it, so I usually leave it…

#3

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I’d be sure to have an rss feed url out front, as well as a login link. As to the rest of it, I agree, it does seem rather pointless on a porno blog.

#4

Re: meta in wordpress

thanks for the info and help :slight_smile:

i don’t want comments or users.

re the rss feed - does wordpress create it itself? if so, how does it get used - do surfers subscribe?

#5

Re: meta in wordpress

Yes, the url for subscribing to your rss feed should be shown in the meta, as well as many themes will have it more prominently displayed near the top.

If no comments or users, then make sure to uncheck the box in your ‘admin’ area so that the login or register won’t show, or be available.

you can do this by going to ‘settings’ then ‘discussions’ and find the two boxes. Uncheck them to make sure no one can register or comment. It will or should also remove the ‘comment’ boxes at the end of your single posts/pages. :cool:

#6

Re: meta in wordpress

[QUOTE=basschick;19456]i don’t want comments or users.

re the rss feed - does wordpress create it itself? if so, how does it get used - do surfers subscribe?[/QUOTE]

Comments create user generated text which can be valuable from an SEO perspective. It’s the holy grail of “user generated content”.

Take just about any WP URL and add /feed on the end and you have the RSS feed for that category, tag, or even the comment feed for the post. If you prefer an Atom feed you add /feed/atom…

#7

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I have read before that meta tags are significant for your blog to rank on Search Engines well…

#8

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As a general statement that hasn’t been true for a while now. What matters the most are <title> and the content of the page. If you have a highly targeted page and aren’t going for long-tail keywords, the meta description tag can be useful.

But I think the meta tag Patti’s talking about are very different… They aren’t the ones that were ever used for SEO, yet they do have other functions…