Meta Tags and keywords SEO

I wanted to know how best to go about this, there is several good posts about this subject like

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,42167.0.html

1) I have created a TV called "Meta_Keywords"

2) Input type: Text

3) Default Value:add keywords Stuff,More Stuff,Stuff2

4)add [*Meta_Keywords*]to top template


Ok When I do this the keywords are adding directly to the top of my site which causes my menu and banner to drop down, which means i cannot use this method. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening. I also need to add keywords to my products I would be interested to hear how other people do this with TV, because I am not going to use the manage meta tags and keywords tabs as TV are the way forwards I guess.

you can also add @INHERIT with the description which is great for the whole site, but what about individual Categories, and product can you have descriptions for these?

@BINDINGS – "bind" virtually anything as an input source or the default value to TVs: a logic evaluation (@EVAL), a value from an ancestor document (@INHERIT), an API call, a file uploaded to a specific directory on your web server (@FILE), an RSS feed, a file listing in a directory (@DIRECTORY), another page’s content values found in your site (@DOCUMENT) or pretty much anything else you can dream up. The combination of @BINDINGS and the output transformation "widgets", like dynamically transforming an uploaded .csv file into a data grid, is a combination that many developers find aluring.

So do you use @bindings in the same place as @inherit, I haven’t got around to sitemaps yet bet I will be soon. So does anyone use @bindings with sitemaps?.

If you use any other methods for SEO, SEM, it would be great to hear from you

The meta TV tag should be in the <head> section of your template. If it already is, make sure your HTML code is valid.

So do you use @bindings in the same place as @inherit, I haven’t got around to sitemaps yet bet I will be soon. So does anyone use @bindings with sitemaps?.

Um ... @INHERIT is one of the @bindings so I’m not sure what you’re asking here. @bindings are generally only intended for use in the Default Value or Input Option Values fields of a template variable.

Hope this helps.

<meta name="keywords" content="[*meta_keywords*]" />
<meta name="content" content="[*meta_content*]" />

As bob suggests @INHERIT will allow u to set meta data at the top level of your site and have it filter down using @INHERIT. This is good as you may forget to add it etc?

U can then add it per page as needed...

Thanks for your help

So I added <meta name="keywords" content="[*meta_keywords*]" /> to the head section of my site which is in the chunk header_section. But the keywords are added directly to the top of my site which causes my menu and banner to drop down, which is not good.

When I add keywords normally like <meta name="Keywords" content= "keyword1, keyword2," /> I don’t have this problem, i am using version 1.0.2. I would like to use the TV method but i want be able to if they are added directly to the top of the site. Has anyone come across this before?

Ok i fixed it i don’t know why it didn’t work the first time anyway, I guess will find out in a few days if google analytics picks up the keywords, out of interest jusmeig what have you added in

<meta name="content" content="[*meta_content*]" />??

Could be you needed to clear the cache; changing templates, chunks or TVs (anything other than documents) doesn’t automatically clear the cache, so if the page you’re working on was cached you won’t see the changes.

Quote from: MichaelHarringtonDesigns at Mar 08, 2010, 04:46 PM

<meta name="content" content="[*meta_content*]" />??

My bad, should read: <meta name="description" content="[*meta_description*]" />
Think that answers you’re question

Thanks jusmeig

That has gave me a better understand on how to use TV for keywords, and you correct Susan I needed to clear my cache, thanks again