where is the right place for metatags

[Darius]

Hallo,

my CMG http://bild.gr is placed on position 49 in google. I think the reason is because i have no metatags in my code.
I found some questions for metatags but no good answer. Is someone able to help me??? I`m sure!

Gruss Darius

[Nibbler]

Put them in your theme's template.html (with the other meta tags).

[Darius]

i did it (not yet)!javascript:void(0);
Cool

But is it possible to change the metatags depends by the albums and categories?
Example: someone choose the album sport so the metatag description or keywords have others?

Thanks for your fast answer!

Gruss Darius

[Tranz]

metatags are so 90s. Put your efforts into getting backlinks. I don't know if you recall the internet before Google, but search results were irrelevant due to the easy gaming of search engines with the abuse of meta tags. What made Google different was its lower priority (if any) on meta tags, and using link analysis to determine relevance and importance.

[Aeronautic]

respectfully, i must disagree with your dismissal of meta tags.

non-spammy use of meta-tags is still important to all seo. note the term non-spammy.

quality back-links and not links from link farms and other bad neighborhoods are also important. but the value of a link is not what it used to be, with pages not being indexed, no follow tags, etc.

when it comes to images though, and this is not a feature request in the wrong forum so don't scream at me, non-spammy use of alt tags for images (why we are all here) is very important.

however, while i'm not capable of contributing it myself (and wish I could), settings for alt tag preferences for all images (thumbs, med, large) in the configuration admin area would be a dream come true (to "title," or "file name," or "keywords," or "album," etc.). in the meantime, we hack and hack some more.

and CPG is still a great application as it is. and such a deal! 

[Joachim Müller]

I agree with Aeronautic (and disagree with Thu on this issue): although meta-tag spamming has resulted in most search-engine spiders ignoring them, there are still some spiders who consider them. Although almighty Google (nearly) doesn't take them into account, other spiders will. It's not a question of what search-engine spammers, WYSIWYG-editor manufacturers and newbies made out of meta tags, it's a question of well-formedness of your page as well, so yes: this question is valid imo.