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**mojoe176** · 07-29-2008

Hello,
on my website, i am trying to change what google shows when i do a search for my name. For example if i go to google.com and type

Code:

Joe Cramer

the 3rd one down is mine. I want to change all that garbage of a description to say something like 'My name is Joe Cramer, I am a student at CVTC in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and this is my blog.'
this is what my meta tags look like

Code:

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
<link href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />



<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

could someone please help me change these meta tags to display what i said above? Im just unsure what i need to do exactly.
Thanks so much!!

**nixweb.org** · 07-29-2008

What google shows as the link at the top of its listings is pulled directly from the "title" attribute of your web page. The text following that is first text on the page. So to change the text that it displays below the link, just change the text on your page.

If you sign up for google webmaster tools you can submit your site to be spidered and it will do so much quicker than just waiting for it to happen.

I see you are using word press, for the most part word press does good with search engine optimization but you want to create your own meta tags, you can do that by going here :

HTML Basix - Meta Tag Generator

**mojoe176** · 08-04-2008

Thanks for the reply,
I installed a wordpress plugin called 'All in one SEO' and i hope that i have this set up right. Please let me know what you think.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>


<title>Joe Cramer's Blog</title>
<!-- leave this for stats -->
<link href="http://joecramer.net/wp-content/themes/nebula3-0/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Joe Cramer’s Blog RSS Feed" href="http://joecramer.net/?feed=rss" />
<link rel="pingback" href="http://joecramer.net/xmlrpc.php" />
<script type="text/javascript">var theme="nebula"; var currentver=3.0;</script>



<script type="text/javascript">
var themeloc="http://joecramer.net/wp-content/themes/nebula3-0";

//    OPTIONS   --  edit below, not above
var condizioniiniziali='100'; // initial menu conditions (0/1/2 : closed/open/locked) unused are automatically set to " 1 (open) "
var numeromenu=0; /* how many menus. Menus should have progressive ID : menu1, menu2, menu3 etc*/
var HM_Active=1; /* 1 active / 2 disable */
//    OPTIONS   --  don't edit below


</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://joecramer.net/wp-content/themes/nebula3-0/showhidev2.js"></script>


<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://joecramer.net/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://joecramer.net/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" /> 
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.6" />


<!-- all in one seo pack 1.4.6.13 [180,212] -->
<meta name="description" content="My name is Joe Cramer, I am a student at CVTC in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and this is my blog." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Joe Cramer,Blog,Rice Lake,Wisconsin,CVTC,Student,ITNS,Cisco," />
<!-- /all in one seo pack -->

**nixweb.org** · 08-04-2008

Looks good hope you get the results you are looking for, if you are interested in trading links I have many sites. Please let me know.

Another thing that will help with your search results are backlinks, like if you put your name "Joe Kramer" and the link went to your website, in your sig file here or at other forums that will really help too.

**mojoe176** · 08-04-2008

thanks again for the help,
I guess what i was trying to do is not so much drive traffic to my site as it is just a personal blog, but to change what google has as a description for my site. I will do some more looking on the backlinks and thanks for the tip I really do appreciate the help.

**mojoe176** · 08-05-2008

I put them up on Rice Lake Bars.com links

**nixweb.org** · 08-07-2008

Thanks, I linked this site back on my sites too.

Are you on any other forums, or do you spend most of your time here, mojoe176?

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