Meta Tags and Keyword Descriptions

[partyfavourz]

Please help? I am trying to optimise my site and when I look at Meta tag analyzer software it says that it found NO DESCRIPTION META TAG and NO KEWORDS META TAG. These have been input in acticnic and uploaded and refreshed to the web. I have also down loaded the Latest V9.0.0.5 upload and it had made no difference. I am not a web designer so if you could answer in laymen terms I would really appreciate it.
Many many thanks.
Sue

[Mike Hughes]

What's your website url?

Mike

[partyfavourz]

www.partyfavourz.com

and thank you for helping

[leehack]

They look like they are there to me, maybe your analyser isn't such a good analyser.

[4surehosting]

Hi,

I have also had a look at the site and this is showing the tags.

[partyfavourz]

Hi
Thanks for helping, I used a site called submit express and I have pasted below the results - should I just accept that submit express is not very good?

Meta tags analysis.
Title: Title meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 79 characters.

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Title relevancy to page content is excellent.
The Title relevancy to page content is 100%.

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Description: Found no description meta tag.
The description meta tag is used by most of the search engines. Consider adding a description meta tag.
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Keywords: Found no keywords meta tag.
The keyword meta tag is still used by many search engines. Consider adding a keyword meta tag.

[leehack]

A link to the page you tested would be a good idea.....

[partyfavourz]

Here it is


http://www.submitexpress.com/cgi-bin/analyzer/meta.pl

[pinbrook]

Lee meant the page on your site you ran through the analyser

[brucet]

I ran your home page through the same analyser and it does report no meta keywords and description tags, however both are plainly visible in the page source:

<meta name="keywords" content="www.partyfavourz.com, partybags, wedding, wedding favours, favours, personalised, table centrepieces, birthday party, birthday, celebration, function, chair covers, chair cover, wedding centre piece, venue dressing, balloons, hertfordshire, essex, london." /><meta name="description" content="Party favourz specialise in venue dressing and event management, offering a wide range of services including chair covers, table centrepieces, balloons and bespoke table favours, for any function, in the counties of hertfordshire, essex and london. Party favourz also offer a national courier service for the delivery of our unique party bags, wedding favours and pass the parcels." />

Your HTML is compacted which means there are no line breaks. DK if that might be confusing the analyser. It won't confuse the search engines and will slightly improve page load times.

[partyfavourz]

Eeek sorry, am new to all this but...

Any page from my website, www.partyfavourz.com has the same errors for keywords meta tag and description meta tag using submit express anaylser.

I used the main index page to get the results shown below.

[Mike Hughes]

Anytime we've looked at this in the past it's nearly always been the actinic tags that break the analysers. AFAIK they just don't like custom tags.

Mike

[Jarvis]

This is an issue that I have had for a long time.
Solution:
Swap the code in Actinic on your pages from:
<actinic:variable name="BaseHref" />
<actinic:variable name="MetaTags" />

to read
<actinic:variable name="MetaTags" />
<actinic:variable name="BaseHref" />

Many analysers like to see things in their proper order, ie, MetaTags before Stylesheet links etc.

Actually, it's a bug that I have reported back to Actinic in the past for both v8 and v9 but has yet to be addressed. :o