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Juliette Tworsey
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 32,425 PointsTitle and meta tags for SEO with PHP
How do you create unique titles and meta tags for each page (via the header) on your site if your site is built with PHP with a single header.php file that is included on each page?
Thanks!
2 Answers
Seth Kroger
56,414 PointsThe details will depend you're specific code/framework/etc. The basic part is to provide variables for title and search keywords before calling on the header file and use those to dynamically create the title and meta tags.
Muhammad Shozab
Courses Plus Student 431 PointsI am a bit new in this field please guide me. What do you mean by variables?
Juliette Tworsey
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 32,425 PointsJuliette Tworsey
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 32,425 PointsThanks for the quick response Seth. I'm not using any PHP frameworks at this moment, though I have been studying and learning a bit about Wordpress and have a few projects that I am working on utilizing the WP way.
So basically if I'm not using any particular PHP framework (ie., just a plain php site) all that I need to do is create the variables for both the title and the description/key words and echo them out (before the header include) on each page? I just want to make sure that I understand. If that's it, then it's not as complicated as I had anticipated (yay!).