enable authors to provide meta descriptions

[mdw]

LTB sitepages have no meta keywords. This hurts us in the search engines. These meta keywords are a vestige to be sure, but helpful to attract readers to the original source of the article.

What I suggest is simply:

1. add one column to blog_posts table for keywords,
2. add a form field for authors to add keywords, and
3. alter the code which renders the pages to also write a meta keywords tag

[cryptonaut420]

Actually, the "meta keywords" HTML tag is basically obsolete and has been for many years now. Google completely ignores any meta keywords you put in.

The actual solution to this is the "meta description" tag, which IS used (its usually what you see in the excerpt/description on each result on google). Should be a fairly simple change to make the blog post excerpt on each article replace the current placeholder description that is used.

[mdw]

That would be excellent :) It's painful to see the sites that re-publish this content get all the search engine traffic. The LTB homepage is always listed, but never the inner pages: http://i.imgur.com/LTiqykg.png

• changed issue title based on your comment

[cryptonaut420]

This is live now!

[mdw]

Nice job, thanks!