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Forum General – All in One SEO Pack Is it possible to have meta descriptions for Tag pages?

Is it possible to have meta descriptions for Tag pages?
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will_pigeon

United Kingdom

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6:54 pm August 24, 2010
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I think this would be useful to enhance certain important Tags for my site.

Would it also be possible to add keywords as well to Tag Pages?

Are either of these options possible?

Or are they a bad idea?!

Thank you very much

Will
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shendison

Portland Oregon

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7:36 pm August 24, 2010
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I just saw this while trying to find info on how to add the meta description to tag and category pages.

Most SEO's would probably say to exclude tags and cat pages anyway from robots.txt, but in some cases the category and tag pages can be useful resources, and site owners don't want to block them.

Typically, those ARE duplicate content pages, but you might even take the time to write unique snippets. In a case like that, where you want traffic driven there, some sites might even use a unique category theme page etc. so there's no reason those pages shouldn't be indexed with a unique description tag.

So – I have a need / want to do this too on a site…
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will_pigeon

United Kingdom

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9:16 am November 21, 2010
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Post edited 9:17 am – November 21, 2010 by will_pigeon

I did this by adding some code to my header.php:

<?php if ( is_tag() && tag_description() ) : ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo substr(wp_specialchars( strip_tags( tag_description()), 1 ), 0, strrpos(substr(wp_specialchars( strip_tags( tag_description()), 1 ), 0, 161 ), ' ') ); ?><?php if ( $paged < 2 ) { } else { echo (' – Page '); echo ($paged);} ?>" />
<?php endif; ?>

So it takes a defined selection from the first 160 characters of my tag description and uses it for the meta description. I use a double space to indicate where I want the meta description snippet to end. Also adds page numbers to descriptions.
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