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How can I tell if my page is showing the meta tags I specified?


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Ask.WPD @ on July 15, 2009, 3:11
How can I check that my page is showing title, description and keywords generated Meta tags I specified for each post?



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Jeffrey @ on July 15, 2009, 3:27
Guys,

If you've activated this plugin in Wordpress, you may want to check that the All-In-One SEO meta tags are actually being used in your page. I.e. that your page is showing title, description and keywords generated meta tags you specified for each post.

Ensuring that these 3 meta tags are customized and published for each post will certainly help your posts rank better in search engines.

To check:
1. Open up an post / page in your browser
2. View Source
3. Check that the <meta name="title">, <meta name="description">, <meta name="keywords"> are exactly what you specified them to be when populating your post.

If not, it may still be using the default Wordpress tags.

In my case it was populating the title tag fine but was not showing description and keywords. I found out that the All-In-One SEO generated tags were listed below the default Wordpress description & keyword tags.

To fix this I went into the "header.php" file via the Wordpress > Design > Theme Editor and removed :

<meta name="description" ...>
<meta name="keywords" ...>

Important: Ensure that you have All-In-One SEO Plugin turned on before doing the above.

After this I then checked out a post, viewed source and confirmed that the meta tags were now being populated correctly.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Kind Regards,
Arnold aka Mr.Gadget

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