: Will loading meta tags dynamically from a database hurt the site? I have a website (ASP.NET MVC) which has its contents mainly in Sinhala language. So the search engines will list my site

@Angela700

Almost every database driven website loads meta tags dynamically, WordPress is an example. The Title, Descriptions and Keyword meta tags can be set and stored in the database. Google doesn't care where you load the meta tags from. The do not use meta keywords in their algorithm though. Meta description and title they also may change based on search query to provide better results than what you've set for the page. The only reason to store them in your database is to be able to easily manage them through a form in your backend.

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@Frith620

I don't think this will work. Google does (IMO) review the meta tags and it can affect your position (I'm still on my own with this theory :) ) but, only by relating the tags to the content of your site.

If you don't have English words / phrases on your site then I don't think you will succeed in English. It seems like you need an English site as well!

EDIT as per milo suggestion in your original post

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@Goswami781

Meta Tags are not considered as a ranking signal by Google and most of the top search engines. However, meta description might increase your Click Through Rate if used appropriately.

Also, unless you have a lot of similar pages, it's usually not needed to load meta tags dynamically. (for example, if you have a blog meta tags will depend on each article, and different articles would have different meta tags, defeating the purpose of loading meta tags dynamically - even if it could be loaded from database, its not necessarily dynamically generated. On the other hand, if you have a website that sells lots of product which are very similar, but differ on brands and features, you could load dynamically the main body of the meta tags with different features based on the items)

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