# Meta tags redundancy in RW

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/meta-tags-redundancy-in-rw/7878>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/meta-tags-redundancy-in-rw/7878 "2016-06-14T15:13:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rovertek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rovertek/32/223_2.png) [@Rovertek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Rovertek)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/meta-tags-redundancy-in-rw/7878/1 "2016-06-14T15:13:22Z")

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There’s always been some meta-tag redundancy in RW, but in version 7 there’s more of it than before. Let me explain.

In the **Meta Tags** panel of the Inspector, RW has **4** separate areas for including meta-tags: a little text-input window for the “`description`”, 2 checkboxes for “`index this page`” and “`follow links`”, a normal meta-tag window where you add names and content of meta-tags and then there is another check-box for “Credit Rapid Weaver”.

If you use all four methods of input, you end up with redundant – and sometimes contradictory – information. For example, if I check the boxes for “`Index this page`” and “`Follow links`” and then I will create a separate “`robots`” meta-tag in the box below with the content “`noindex,nofollow`” (or the other way around), I end up with **two sets of the same tag** , but with **contradicting** instructions for indexing bots. That may confuse them and they may act contradictory to our intentions.

Here is what I think should be done to make things fool-proof and much easier for users of RW:

—Get rid of the Description text-input box, the 2 robots check-boxes and “Credit Rapid Weaver”;  
—In the remaining Tags window, make a list of all most popular meta-tags **with check-boxes to enable them** and with tag-content input (that list should contain such tags as: “`robots`”, “`author`”, “`copyrights`”, “`description`”, “`keywords`”, “`language`”, “`changefreq`”, “`priority`”, “`generator`”, etc.). At the end of that list we should be able to create our own additional and less-frequently used meta-tags – just as it is now.