"Description" info

[randyf]

My site is finally about functional and I am attempting to get ranked with the search engines. I had a site go over my pages and it came back saying that I had nothing for site "description." This may sound rather stupid, but where do I enter the info for site "description?" Where are the search engines looking for it?

 

Thank you for any help.

[natewlew]

I would install one of the SEO contributions.

 

I have this contribution installed:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3357

 

Its easy to install.

[garysgal]

I've installed the Ultimate SEO contributions, but would be interested in this question - I'd like to change the titles of pages and add descriptions too, but I don't see where I can do it. My SEO program also says I have no title tags or descriptions.

[natewlew]

I am not sure if this is correct but this is an example of one of my pages:

<title>Centos - $3.99</title>

<meta name="description" content="Shiplinux discount Distro's Centos CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent .." />

<meta name="keywords" content="Linux, Bsd, Other, Live Linux, Centos, Shiplinux discount Distro's" />

You have a title, description and keywords.

[randyf]

I am not sure if this is correct but this is an example of one of my pages:

 

You have a title, description and keywords.

 

Now, did you actually add the "title," "description" and "keywords?" Or, did the contributions somehow lay that out. Sorry, this is just confusing me.

[natewlew]

This is all you add it puts the information there for you:

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'meta_tags.php'); ?>

<title><?php echo META_TAG_TITLE; ?></title>

[garysgal]

I installed the Header Tags contribution and it's working grand now...