# Philosophy: placement of metatags for search engines

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/philosophy-placement-of-metatags-for-search-engines/283988>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [March 13, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/philosophy-placement-of-metatags-for-search-engines/283988 "2009-03-13T13:10:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![graylensman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@graylensman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/graylensman)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/philosophy-placement-of-metatags-for-search-engines/283988/1 "2009-03-13T13:10:52Z")

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Here’s a philosophical question for all you who are smarter than me :yoda:

I have a website with, say, seven pages - home page plus six sub pages. Obviously I want to put keywords for search engines in the metatags of the home page. But do I want to do the same thing with the other six pages? Should I add and subtract words to make them more relevant to the content of that specific page?

Am I overthinking this?