[#WCM-320] HTML content should be able to set the meta-description and meta-keywords. - jira.jcatalog.com

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Type: Improvement
Status: Resolved
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 0.3.1
Fix Version/s: 0.9.2
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Add metaDescription and metaKeywords fields to HTMLContent nodes

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Dave Cherry added a comment - 23/Nov/09 5:50 PM

Although meta-keywords are not that important, meta-description remains an important field.

If the keywords in the search also exist in the meta-description, it is used under the link in the SERPs. This is important as it gives more control of the description - without which google uses a splice of the text from the page, which may or may not be readable.

Google webmaster tools indicates when a meta-description is incorrectly formed, showing the importance placed on this field.

If we could have either or, I would prefer removing the keywords, and adding a meta-description instead. This should be fairly easy to implement, and carries quite a bit of weight:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html

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Dave Cherry added a comment - 23/Nov/09 5:50 PM Although meta-keywords are not that important, meta-description remains an important field. If the keywords in the search also exist in the meta-description, it is used under the link in the SERPs. This is important as it gives more control of the description - without which google uses a splice of the text from the page, which may or may not be readable. Google webmaster tools indicates when a meta-description is incorrectly formed, showing the importance placed on this field. If we could have either or, I would prefer removing the keywords, and adding a meta-description instead. This should be fairly easy to implement, and carries quite a bit of weight: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html

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Marc Palmer added a comment - 13/Jan/10 11:45 AM

This is tricky - we need to be careful. You could say that basically we need support for all these:

a) Title (and we have htmlTitle and menuTitle in addition - IMO really Title is for display in the repository to show admins what it is, htmlTitle is for the page)
b) Description (for search results - description is a bad name here - "Search excerpt" is better)
c) Keywords (for meta keywords tag)
d) Summary/excerpt (for blog-style entries / snippets of child content in content lists)

Then there's tagging to come too.

I would say that (b) and (d) are the same thing. Do we really need different support for the two? If not then we just need a new "Excerpt/Summary" field, and layouts can use that in the meta description?

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Marc Palmer added a comment - 13/Jan/10 11:45 AM This is tricky - we need to be careful. You could say that basically we need support for all these: a) Title (and we have htmlTitle and menuTitle in addition - IMO really Title is for display in the repository to show admins what it is, htmlTitle is for the page) b) Description (for search results - description is a bad name here - "Search excerpt" is better) c) Keywords (for meta keywords tag) d) Summary/excerpt (for blog-style entries / snippets of child content in content lists) Then there's tagging to come too. I would say that (b) and (d) are the same thing. Do we really need different support for the two? If not then we just need a new "Excerpt/Summary" field, and layouts can use that in the meta description?

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HTML content should be able to set the meta-description and meta-keywords.

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