Guide for Adding Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions in WordPress
Meta keywords and Meta descriptions in WordPress can boost your search rankings. They help you tell the search engines a little bit more about your page and post. Needless to say, keywords are the words that people are likely to search for when looking for specific content online. The Meta description, on the other hand, is the brief description of what a post or page is all about.
Meta keywords and descriptions are HTML Meta tags that go into the header of a website. It is very easy to add Meta keywords and Meta descriptions in WordPress thanks to the assortment of plugins that are available. Regardless of what you have learnt about met descriptions, it is very important for you to note that they are very important. In addition to improving your ranking, they will help grab the attention of users since they are displayed together with the search results on search engines. Now let’s take a look at how you can add the keywords and Meta descriptions on your page.
Enable in Yoast SEO
Enabling Meta keywords support in Yoast SEO is the first option you should consider. You have to enable this in order to add Meta keywords. Visit SEO >> Dashboard page then click on the ‘Features’ tab and click on ‘Enabled’ under the ‘Advanced Settings page’ and save changes. The page will reload. Once that is done, go to SEO >> Titles & Meta page and select the ‘Other’ tab. Click ‘Enabled’ under the ‘Use Meta keywords tag?’ Option and save the changes. You are done.
Keywords and descriptions for WordPress pages/posts
To do this, you need to edit the post that you wish to add the keywords and Meta description. Scroll to ‘Yoast SEO’ Meta box which is below the post editor then enter keywords on the ‘Meta Keywords’ area. If you are using several keywords, separate them with a comma. Only use keywords that are relevant to your post and the ones you have already used in the content. Once that is done, go to ‘Edit Snippet’ and add content to the Meta Description. Don’t forget to add keywords in the Meta description before you click on ‘Close snippet editor’. You are done adding the Meta keywords and Meta descriptions in WordPress.
That is all that is needed to add the meta keywords and meta description using Yoast. You can also add these details to the homepage and for the category archives. The general rule here is to make sure you understand how to add the keywords and descriptions properly before editing your content.