Building off the configuration settings in Section 3b, this section uses examples to illustrate how to utilize the provided settings. By following the examples, you should be able to customize your own Metatags to meet some basic Search Engine Optimization standards. For the sake of keeping things simple, I'll use the "Page" content type in my examples, unless otherwise stated. However, you should be able to follow the examples with any content type you wish.
Section 4a. Creating and Managing Metatags
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Section 4b. Using Inherited Metatags
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Section 4c. Metatag Length Capping
Generally speaking, most search engines only look at the "description" and "keywords" Metatags. Depending on the search engine, they will only utilize these tags up to a certain length. For example, Google will use your "description" Metatag in returned search results up to 150 characters[link]. It is possible that your Metatags will be ignored if they are too long, which is bad for your SEO. As such, the option to cap the length of Metatags has been included as a configuration option.
When you visit Administer > Site configuration > Integrated Metatags, you are able to create a word or character cap for the "description" Metatag, "keywords" Metatag, and all other Metatags. These settings are applied to Metatags for all content types.
Example: Limiting the length of your "description" Metatags to 150 characters.
Visit Adminster > Site configuration > Integrated Metatags and locate the "Description Metatag" fieldset (expand it if needed). Enter 150 into the text field, and select the "characters" radio button. Click the "Save" button at the bottom of the form.
Example: Limiting the length of your "keywords" Metatags to 50 words.
Visit Adminster > Site configuration > Integrated Metatags and locate the "Keywords Metatag" fieldset (expand it if needed). Enter 50 into the text field, and select the "words" radio button. Click the "Save" button at the bottom of the form. Note that this will limit the number of words, and not the number of terms used.
Section 4d. Using the Token Module
To use tokens with this module, you need to first make sure the Token module is enabled through your Administer > Site building > Modules page. Once enabled, the content-type "Metatags" pages and the Inherited Metatags page will all have additional wording stating where you can use tokens. It should be noted that tokens can only be used in the "Manual/Static Metatag entry" field, and not in the Dynamic Metatags section. A token can be used as both the value of a static Metatag, as well as the name. Other token-related modules that expose extra node-related tokes will also be usable.
Example: Creating an "nid" Metatag.
Visit the Integrated Metatags page for a content type (e.g. Administer > Content management > Content types > Page > Metatags). Start editing the "Manual/Static Metatag entry" field, and enter the following:
nid|[nid]
Remeber that when defining a static Metatag, the form is <name>|<value>. So, the name of the Metatag will be "nid" and the value will result in the nid of the viewed node. Save the form, and the nid Metatag will start displaying for your content type.
Example: Using tokens to create a dynamicly-named Metatag.
Just as in the last example, go to your Integrated Metatags page for a content type (e.g. Administer > Content management > Content types > Page > Metatags). Start editing the "Manual/Static Metatag entry" field, and enter the following:
[user-name]|[title]
Just as previously outlined, the form here is <name>|<value> for the Metatag. So, if the username for a node is "drupal4life", and the title is "Attending DrupalCon", after you save the page the following Metatag will appear as appropriate:
<meta name="drupal4life" content="Attending DrupalCon" />