search engine optimization

ASP.NET Programatically Add META Keywords and META Description Tags

Submitted by Ben Hodson on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 13:56

One important part of any ASP.NET page is adding a META Keywords and META description tag to the HEAD section of the page. Many search engines place significant weight on the presence of these two tags.

There is some disagreement between SEO experts on how much weight is actually put on these tags by search engines like Google, but it is generally accepted that these tags should be present on any page that you wish search engines to index. Unfortunately, this is usually an after thought for many ASP.NET projects.