[RESOLVED] Dynamically populating meta tags

chinto09

Hi
i am working on a music site where i want to create meta tags (like page title, keywords, description) for each singer dynamically.

i have recored singer name, his song, picture ect in DB.
Every thing is working fine but just want to create meta tags dynamically.

Would any body tell me how i can accomplish it.

thanks in advance🙂

NogDog

It is no different than any other dynamically generated HTML on the page. You can use functions, variables, and string literals in whatever combination works for you to generate the output. For instance, if the artist's name is retrieved to the variable $name, you could generate a page title with:

echo "<title>My Music Site: $name</title>\n";

nrg_alpha

Note that for all intents and purpose, the 'keyword' meta tag is pretty much dead in the water. This info is also reflected by this book, a very good read if you want to get on the ball with SEO. Granted, with Google rumors, see this video, as it appears SEO might be in for a change.

NogDog

While the meta tags have little use for SEO, they do still server a purpose when correctly used to represent the page's content (and Google does pay attention to the description tag at least for what it displays about the page, whether or not it does anything with it regarding page rank). But I definitely agree that if they are being used mainly for SEO, then it's probably a waste of development time.

nrg_alpha

Yeah, description tags are still useful (and recommended).. but the days of stuffing a bunch of keywords (especially unrelated albeit high-ranking words) into the keywords meta tag for the sake of page rankings are pretty much done...

The emphesis these days are on good meaty content (perhaps including some stragtegically well chosen relevant yet higher ranking words), clean and valid sematic markup to reduce code-to-content ratio, cleaner URLs, heading tags (<h1>,<h2><h3>...), reputable inbound links, which text is emphasized, etc.... Them search egines have certainly evolved, and continue to do so. SEO is a constant moving target to be sure.

chinto09

thanks buddies for your useful comments and suggestions.
chinto🙂