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How to add Metatags to your website (place metatags)


Put metatags in your Source

Here you will find all the information about how to add metatags to an existing website. We now assume you have some basic knowledge about builing a webpage, HTML and internet programs. To make changes to your page you need :

  1. a FTP program, to transfer files to and from your server to your computer
  2. Username and password of your server
  3. A simple text editing program like Simpeltext or Notepad

Frequently Asked Question

  • Question : "I have no clue, what am I supposed to do now?"
  • Answer:  ask a friend that has some internet knowledge or even better: hire a website builder! Also your server provider  can help you. If you use a CMS system, ask the supplier of the program for help.

Steps


Adding metatags to your page is not very difficult, but it has to be done in an accurate way. Otherwise it might be possible that your website is not working properly anymore.
  1. Allways make a backup of your website. Now you are able to replace the file with a copy if something goes wrong.
  2. Make relevant metatags by using our online Metatags Wizard
  3. Make a FTP connection with your webserver
  4. Obtain the index.htm or index.html file
  5. Open this file with Notepad or SimpleText or a HTML editor


    <HTML>
     <HEAD>
      <TITLE>
    New Document </TITLE>
    </HEAD>

     <BODY>


    Test text
      
    </BODY>
    </HTML>


  6. Copy and past the metatags between  <HEAD> </HEAD> part in the source of your page
  7. Save the page
  8. Replace the index file with FTP on the webserver
  9. Check your webpage with our Metatags Analyzer
  10. Repeat step 1 to 9 to add metatags to all the pages of your website
So it's not that difficult to add metatags to your website. Use our online Metatags Generator to generate a correct HTML file to add metatags to your website.





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Place the metatags in every single page of your website.
  1. Read why metatags are important and how they affect the search engines.
  2. Use our metatags generator to create the correct metatags.
  3. Use our website analyzer to get professional advice from the metatags experts.
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