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Managing Your Quick Content Custom Meta Tags

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Last Updated: May 1, 2015 9:29 AM

In your Quick Content account, you can add custom meta tags to each page of your mini website. Meta tags tell crawler-based search engines how to search and describe your website. For example, you can add a "description" meta tag to describe a page's content to search engines, or you can add a "robots" tag that prevents search engines from indexing the page.

There are three ways you can add custom meta tags to your Quick Content site: You can add them to your entire site, to the pages Quick Content creates based on the keywords you enter, and to your custom content and shopping pages.

If you add a meta tag with the same name to both your entire site and an individual page, the page-level tag takes precedence.

You can edit or delete your custom meta tags at any time.

Working with Custom Meta Tags for Your Entire Site

On the Site Info screen, you can add, edit, and delete custom meta tags for your entire site.

You can also add custom meta tags when you first set up Quick Content. For more information, see Setting up Quick Content.

To Work with Custom Meta Tags for Your Entire Site

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Next to Quick Content Site, click Manage.
  3. Select the domain name you want to work with.
  4. From Site Settings, click Site Information.
  5. Click Custom Meta Tags, and then do one of the following:
    • To add a meta tag, click Add Meta Tag, enter a Name and Value for the meta tag, and then click Add.

      NOTE: For example, if you want to add a meta tag that describes your site to search engines, you could enter description in the Name field and a sentence that describes your site in the Value field.

    • To edit a meta tag, click for that meta tag, make your changes, and then click Update.
    • To delete a meta tag, click for that meta tag.
  6. Click Save Progress. The Status column lets you know when your changes are ready to be published. Possible statuses include:
    • Processing updates — We are processing the changes you submitted for your website.
    • Edits pending — We finished processing your changes, and they're ready for you to publish them. For information about publishing your changes, see Publishing Quick Content Site Changes.

Working with Custom Meta Tags on Your Keyword-Based Pages

On the Article Keywords screen, you can add, edit, and delete custom meta tags for your keyword-based pages. For more information about keywords and the pages they create, see Managing Your Quick Content Keywords.

To Work with Custom Meta Tags on Your Keyword-Based Pages

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Next to Quick Content Site, click Manage.
  3. Select the domain name you want to work with.
  4. From Site Settings, click Keywords.
  5. For the keyword you want to work with, click .
  6. Click Custom Meta Tags, and then do one of the following:
    • To add a meta tag, click Add Meta Tag, enter a Name and Value for the meta tag, and then click Add.

      NOTE: For example, if you want to add a meta tag that describes your site to search engines, you could enter description in the Name field and a sentence that describes your site in the Value field.

    • To edit a meta tag, click for that meta tag, make your changes, and then click Update.
    • To delete a meta tag, click for that meta tag.
  7. Click Save.
  8. Click Save Progress. The Status column lets you know when your changes are ready to be published. Possible statuses include:
    • Processing updates — We are processing the changes you submitted for your website.
    • Edits pending — We finished processing your changes, and they're ready for you to publish them. For information about publishing your changes, see Publishing Quick Content Site Changes.

Working with Custom Meta Tags on Your Custom Content and Shopping Pages

On the Custom Content screen, you can add or edit custom content and shopping pages. When you edit one of these pages, you can also add, edit, and delete custom meta tags for them. For more information about custom content and shopping pages, see Managing Quick Content Pages.

To Work with Custom Meta Tags on Your Custom Content and Shopping Pages

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. Next to Quick Content Site, click Manage.
  3. Select the domain name you want to work with.
  4. From Site Settings, click Custom Content.
  5. For the page you want to work with, click .
  6. Click Custom Meta Tags, and then do one of the following:
    • To add a meta tag, click Add Meta Tag, enter a Name and Value for the meta tag, and then click Add.

      NOTE: For example, if you want to add a meta tag that describes your site to search engines, you could enter description in the Name field and a sentence that describes your site in the Value field.

    • To edit a meta tag, click for that meta tag, make your changes, and then click Update.
    • To delete a meta tag, click for that meta tag.
  7. Click Save.
  8. Click Save Progress. The Status column lets you know when your changes are ready to be published. Possible statuses include:
    • Processing updates — We are processing the changes you submitted for your website.
    • Edits pending — We finished processing your changes, and they're ready for you to publish them. For information about publishing your changes, see Publishing Quick Content Site Changes.