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If you care at all about your site's search engine ranking then there are two things that are more important than anything else:

1. interesting, well organized content
2. well thought out meta-tags on every page

Drupal out of the box is great for the first, but to accomplish the second you'll need to install the Meta Tags, aka Nodewords module. Fortunately it is easy to do, here's how:

First go to the module's homepage at drupal.org which is right here.

Download the file, which is in tar.gz format. I used Iceows to uncompress to a tar file, and then untar (like unzipping), saving the output files on my hard drive.

Following that, I used Filezilla to upload the nodewords folder onto my website server to /public_html/drupaldev/modules/.

Now navigate to
Administer >> Site building >> Modules
where you'll see Meta tags in the 'other' category. Have I mentioned that imo this ought to be a core module? Anyway...

Check the box next to Meta tags and save the configuration to enable the module. In typical Drupal ease of use, the installation is now done!

Site wide configuration is done by navigating over to
Administer >> Content management >> Meta tags.

Now for the important part. Adding meta-tags to your site's content. This is best done whenever publishing a new page, article, or blog entry. You can always edit the meta-tags, and should when you have substantively edited the content.

How to create/maintain your site's meta-tags.

When creating, or editing content, you'll now see meta-tags as an expandable entry which you can use to add a description and keywords list for your content.