tags and meta tags

Meta tags are descriptive tags that describe data. They don’t usually appear on the page itself (though some do). They are, however, machine readable and, historically, search engines have used the information in their listings.

If you look at your page’s source code you’ll see some meta tags between the

<!-- platinum seo pack 1.2.6 -->

and

<!-- /platinum one seo pack -->

The tags that you add when writing a post are markup tags and describe how your data should be displayed.

Some search engines also use the markup to weight content. A word between <h1></h1> tags is considered more important than words contained between regular <p></p> tags, which is why SEO types usually emphasise the importance of putting your keywords in headings, and bolding them within content.

I suppose in that way, it does blur the lines a little but, technically, it should be:

meta tags – describe the data
markup tags – display the data

u mean that the markup tags have nothing to do with search engines? and i have to add meta tags manually in each post in HTML mode?

Like I said, search engines use markup to find out what the important bits are within content. If something is between <h1> tags, it has more importance than something between <p> tags, or <h3> tags.

So in that respect, they have a lot to do with search engines.

You shouldn’t have to add meta tags manually. According to your source code, you’re using the Platinum SEO pack plugin, so at the bottom of the ‘edit post’ screen there should be a place where you can add descriptions and keywords.

This will add the meta data automatically.

isnt there any tool that would generate the keywords from the content??? and one more question… in my xml sitemap plugin settings, i have two things that confuse me. frequencies and priorities…. what values do u recommend me for these? also another question is that my xmlsitemap plugin gives errors like “there was a problem notifying google” how can i solve this issue?

I don’t know. Try searching the database:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/

As for specific plugin issues, you’d need to see the plugin author for that. If you go to your Plugins -> Installed menu item in your WordPress database, there’s usually a link to the plugin author’s site which might have more information on the problems you’re having.