Melanie GormanFounder, Crownsville Media · SEO and website expert for mental health businesses

Confused about meta tags?

26 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional video, the speaker addresses common confusion about the relevance of meta tags in modern SEO. She emphasizes that despite Google’s advanced ability to parse page content, meta information—specifically page titles, meta descriptions, and URL keywords—remains the first data Google reads and therefore should be included on every page. The speaker advises consistently embedding these meta elements alongside body content to maximize SEO effectiveness.

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So you're getting mixed advice about meta tags. Should you still include them in your content? Absolutely yes. Meta information is what Google reads. Now Google is incredibly sophisticated, so it can read everything else on your pages as well, but your meta information— your page title, your meta description— they are at the very front of what Google is reading. And when you're doing SEO, you have your keywords in your URL, your page title, your meta description, and the body of your website page or article. So you absolutely want to still all of the meta information every single time.