Want to add Google meta tag into existing style sheet – is this possible?
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Hello. I’m a totally clueless CSS type – (don’t even know what it stands for) …
I’d like to add a google meta tag from the Google webmaster tools into my existing wordpress style format, but I don’t THINK I can do that, can I? It’s just an alternate ‘stats’ counter, with some additional features that I’d like to consider …
Any help would be much appreciated.
I understand I’m supposed to insert the ‘meta’ info beteen the ‘header’ and ‘body’ CSS … but I’m really not sure where/how to do this and I don’t want to screw up my whole blog …
Please & thank you.
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Meta tags cannot be added to CSS and will be stripped out by wordpress, and for the most part they are obsolete. Search engines pay virtually no attention to them because they have been so abused.
The official Google blog does not have meta tags or keywords. Matt Cutts’ blog (Google big-wig) does not have meta tags or keywords on his blog.
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WordPress.COM has a huge amount of search engine juice, and that means blogs here have the benefit of that juice.
Categorize and tag your posts with appropriate and accurate tags (total tags + categories of 12 or less) and you will be fine.
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Hi
We are also interested in this topic, how do you mean, ‘total tags’ & why categories of 12 or less?
Thanks :-)
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WordPress had to institute a limit on tags and categories because of abuse. In some cases people were using the same 100 tags on every post whether they were appropriate or not. In one case I saw, a blogger had more tags than there were words in the post.
The limit is not hard and fast, but what staff has said is that if you use appropriate tags and categories and limit the total number (tags + categories to 12 or under then there is little chance you will be blocked from the global tags pages. Examples: 2 categories + 10 tags = 12 or 4 categories + 8 tags = 12.
Also, posts with huge numbers of tags or categories cause a red flag to go up at search engines and they suspect you as being a tag spammer and will lower your page rank. This is why search engines pay virtually no attention to meta tags/keywords in the head of web pages. They were so abused as to become worthless to the search engines.
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