I have seen many newbie members asking if they should be filling in the information fields under the WordPress editor window. For the beginner I normally advise to leave them blank. But for those who are more seasoned and not afraid to experiment I tell them to only type up the Meta Description. More on this in just a bit.

WHAT ARE THE META TAGS

As you can see in the image above the Meta Tags in the All In One SEO Pack area under the editor window contains a snippet of how your page or post will look like in the Google Search. This snippet contains the Title at the top (in Blue), then the Permalink (in Green), and then the Description.

Other than the Permalink, only the Title and Description are Meta Tags. You can also see these Meta Tag fields below the Preview Snippet. The one Meta Tag that you should never fill in at all is the Keyword Meta Tag. As you can see it is not part of the Snippet and NONE of the search engines use the Keyword Meta Tag. More about this on the next page.

NEXT UP = Which Meta Tags should you fill out and why
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SQUIRRELL Premium
As usual you start a tutorial on something I am working, you are psychic.

I would like to know how to create a drop down menu for my pages with a category title that does not have a page relating to the actual title.

Thanks I hope I make sense :O))
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boomergp08 Premium
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You would have to create a custom menu and then use the # hashtag feature that Kyle explains about in his training video at the below link.
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gomohr Premium
Great explanation once again. Sweet and to the point, easy to follow.
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boomergp08 Premium
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Thank you Jerry. It seems I am on a roll lately with the training tutorials. I am currently gathering information on another big one...best ways to use Google+ for social media marketing.
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Cool. I will look forward to it. I am starting to use Facebook, Pinterest and even Twitter which I never had any desire to use.
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boomergp08 Premium
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Many people have no desire to use social media but it is necessary nowadays if you want to get traffic to your website.
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Wedge910 Premium
Excellent information! Keep it up!
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boomergp08 Premium
@Wedge910
Thank you George! I definitely will.
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Mark1957 Premium
Thanks for the training again Robert, going to put it with my part 1 and read them together.
Mark
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boomergp08 Premium
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You are welcome Mark. Happy reading. :)
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jvranjes Premium
Hi Robert, I do not see the purpose of the step in Page Attribute. I never do it. Once in the Menu I just drag and drop under parent page as you do, so this step just looks redundant. Is there some purpose of it that I do not know?
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boomergp08 Premium
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This is the way I was taught when I first started here. It is an added step that contributes to better UX and organization of the link hierarchy.

Some on the WordPress forums claim that it helps with SEO and some say it doesn't. Perhaps this is a coincidence but all 9 of my Google Page 1 pages were created this way.

It also helps for the creation of drop downs with themes that do not support custom menus. Nathaniell did a video training about it as well.
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@boomergp08
OK, then perhaps I should do the same. I shall have a look at this video. Thank a lot.
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jvranjes Premium
@boomergp08
In fact, I missed to add; if something works so well as you mentioned, you would be fool to change anything, just keep going the same way. Thanks again.
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boomergp08 Premium
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You are welcome. I am not someone who changes anything if what I am doing is working. My moto... If it is not broken then don't fix it.
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