You don't have to. But I recommend a custom Title page that's particular to the content of each page, and if possible, the same for Description. Those are for humans to read, though they don't hurt your search relevance.
It's kind of ugly when every page on a site has exactly the same Title and Description. It makes it harder to pick out the relevant page.
Description is becoming less important now that some search engines use snippeting, but some still do.
Keywords, mehhh. I don't exactly know what search engines do with it, but it's so aggressively spammed that I doubt they do much, if anything.
You only need a Robots meta-tag if you wish to regulate crawler behavior in some way, tell it to not index or cache this page, or not to explore dynamically generated URLs off this page. Any page which generates Session-IDs embedded in the URL should have robots "nofollow".
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Yes. These are what the search engines read to understand what your web page is about.
This week I showed a company that the reason the search engines could not find their website was because there were zero meta tags - it was all Flash. Flash is fine if it is supported with the proper code. No code = no indexing.
How do I know? We have held page 1, top 5 results in Google and Yahoo for the same key word terms for over two years. This is despite the constant changes in algorithyms.
2007-03-24 16:41:50
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There are several types of meta tags -- title tag, description tag, keyword tags, robots tag, and other types of meta tags
The most important meta tags that every page of your site should have are the title and description tags. Search engines will look for those two, and Yahoo in particular does not like pages with no unique tags
Because of too much spamming, search engines are now ignoring meta keyword tags. The other tags (e.g. author, dates, etc) are typically ignored by the main search engines, with only the specialized ones looking into it.
So in answer to your question, YES - every page should have a title and a description. The rest of the metatags you don't have to put.
2007-03-24 12:57:11
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The major search engines, Google and Yahoo have thru-the-backdoor "submit your URL" for free in order to "publish" your domain name. Normally, SEO or placement of metatags should occur prior to "publication" of the domain name. The "adding of meta tags" is accomplished via an HTML editor or web authoring tool, such as "Composer," which is a freebie editor accompanying the Netscape browser. Begin with the
entry in which you describe in keywords what goods and services you are offering and where is the business site, at a city, state. Following with a <description> entry which is a single complete sentence comprising 25-30 words. Then there's the <keywords> entry which consists of 15-20 words, compound and plural separated by a comma and space. Hopefully the above discussion will prove helpful to you in setting up a highly visible and discoverable website on major search engines. Good luck!
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Yes. In that way every page is indexed. Although a site map will get your subsidiary pages indexed too. For free Meta Tag analysis, generating, and keyword analysis and selection <br />
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2007-03-24 21:20:04
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Not necessary but useful. Search engines can use meta tags to categorize and index your if they exist.
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2007-03-24 12:57:20
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In short no.<br />
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The Meta tags are becoming somewhat useless these days thanks to people spamming the bejebus out of them on their pages. <br />
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Have a lot of relevant content on your page will help you in search engines more.
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2007-03-24 12:34:25
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You dont have to add.<br />
Your web page will still be funtional.<br />
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But considering the best practices, you should add<br />
title , description and keywords for every page.
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2007-03-24 14:03:51
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in short, no<br />
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2007-03-24 13:04:07
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You don't have to, but you should.
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