Is there a tool out there I could use to help me compose unique meta tags in bulk?
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We have a website that has hundreds of crawl errors due to duplicate meta tags.
I could do with a tool to help compose unique ones in bulk so we don't exceed the recommended character limit and follow any other best practices.
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I don't know how much content you've got to migrate, but I would suggest migrating to a CMS would be a good idea.
Of course migrating to a CMS has it's own problems such as maintaining the same urls you had in your static site etc, but if the site is going to be around in the long term then it'll be worth biting the bullet now rather than later.
If you want to keep your static pages then I've got a horrible feeling that it's going to be fairly painful. Ideally, you want to make sure that at least your most valuable pages have well crafted titles and descriptions in order to maximise the click-through you get in the SERPS.
If the html pages are in a consistent format you may be able to grab some content, for example the H1 tag could become your TITLE and the start of the first paragraph could be used as a description - but it's not ideal and I don't know of any simple tools that will allow you to do this. I suspect you'll end up getting used to cutting and pasting...
You may be also to find someone who can put some code together to do this for you or at least use the file name as the TITLE with a little formatting.
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Use a simple CMS like grabaperch.com which is a really easy to set up, use copy and paste in a text editor to replace all the existing meta tags with perch content tags and then any none technical person can go through and do them for you.
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Hi Doug,
It's a static html site with no cms or database.
Thanks.
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Are these static HTML pages or are they hosted in a database? Are you using a content management system or e-commerce platform? It's hard to answer this question without knowing a bit more about your site, and the nature of the content. If these are static pages, would it be worth moving the content onto a good CMS that provides you with the ability to generate meta tags automatically and manage manually where required.
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