Do you need Metadata on Password Protect Pages?

[brightvessel]

Hey guys and gals,

I was wondering if it matters to have metadata on password protected pages or if they can be ignored.

Thanks,

[Matthew_Edgar]

Hi Judd. You wouldn't need the title or description tags for Google's sake (or Bing's sake) on pages behind a login since they couldn't crawl those pages. That said, title tags aren't just used by search engines. That is also the title that shows for the page in the browser window and in the bookmark name (if people bookmark those pages), so it can be worthwhile to add a good title tag to help your visitors. Obviously, beyond the meta description tag, there are other meta tags that you might need (like meta viewport or metra reresh, etc.).