How do I add description and keyword to the front page?

Question

I would like to know how to set description and meta keywords for the front page. I use the Meta tags module for articles, but it is not working for the front page.

I use Panel as my front page.

My website is http://www.techiestuffs.com, and runs on Drupal 7.

if you see the HTML source of the front page, it only contains the following HTML:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.techiestuffs.com/sites/default/files/favicon.png" type="image/png"/>
<meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)"/>
<title>TechieStuffs | Stuffs for Geeks</title>

I had tried adding these functions in template.php:

function yourtheme_page_alter($page) {
  $meta_description = array(
    '#type' => 'html_tag',
    '#tag' => 'meta',
    '#attributes' => array(
    'name' => 'description',
    'content' =>  'Description about the site'
  ));

  $meta_keywords = array(
    '#type' => 'html_tag',
    '#tag' => 'meta',
    '#attributes' => array(
    'name' => 'keywords',
    'content' =>  'Some Keywords about the site'
  ));

  drupal_add_html_head($meta_description, 'meta_description');
  drupal_add_html_head($meta_keywords, 'meta_keywords');
}

But this function does not seems to work as you can see in my websites source code.

Does anyone know how to work out this?

Answer 1

Add them in your theme file; whichever theme you're using, it should have an HTML skeleton that you can change.

Answer 2

In drupal 6 I used Nodewords which allowed you to set meta tags on the front page as a configuration. In D7 this has been replaced by Meta Tags which may do the same thing or you.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, Views or Panels do not have meta tags by default. If you use either one for your frontpage, you can use the Meta Tags Quick Module, which allows the addition of the main meta tags for any path that is generated by Drupal.

Answer 4

I'm using Path-Based Metatags option in Meta tags quick module, enable module and go to front page, you will see Path-Based Metatags option...when you click on the option, you can fill in the fields that you want, you can also set the fields that you want to display (admin/config/search/metatags_quick)...