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adding metadata?

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    friendorfoebia · Member · Feb 11, 2011 at 10:07 pm
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    is there a way to add metadata to a wordpress.com hosted sites? Trying to figure out a way that photos/cartoons could get tracked in search engines. Tried adding metadata to the html post, but it disappears when I publish. Thoughts?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    thesacredpath · Member · Feb 11, 2011 at 11:01 pm
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    We can’t add metadata here, and Google has stated that the only metadata they even look at in passing is meta description.

    As long as you include title and alt text when you insert images, the search engines will pick them up and they will show up in image searches. Without alt text though, they will not.

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    raincoaster · Member · Feb 11, 2011 at 11:09 pm
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    Use the filename, caption, description AND alt text to put your keyword descriptors in and you should find that search engines will find your images. Google image searches favour WP images, in part because the additional caption code allows WP bloggers one more place to put keywords in.

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    timethief · Member · Feb 11, 2011 at 11:09 pm
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    @friendorfoebia
    Have you set up a Google webmaster’s acoount and verified your blog ownership with the big searche engines using this method? http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

    This may also be helpful. > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/08/04/basic-seo-elements-for-bloggers/

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    timethief · Member · Feb 11, 2011 at 11:10 pm
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    see also:
    http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/27/blogging-images-enhance-your-posts/
    http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/22/creating-an-effective-blog-tagline/

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    friendorfoebia · Member · Feb 12, 2011 at 11:41 pm
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    Thanks everyone! This helps a lot!

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    timethief · Member · Feb 13, 2011 at 1:12 am
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    You’re welcome. Happy blogging!

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