Meta description template:

  • Hi. In SEO, what do you put into “Meta description template:”. Thanks.

    And if you know how to “specify meta description” on a post draft, you’re owed double thanks.

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  • Hello @geonomist

    1 – Check out the following from Moz.com

    Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

    In a nutshell, you put the description you want google to display under your website’s name when people see it in search results.

    Here’s a link to the rest the MOZ article on Meta Description.

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    2- To specify a specific description tag for each page you need to add the following “tag” to the header of that page:

    <meta name="description" content="you put your description stuff here">

    There are two ways to add a tag like this and have it be page specific, you can either do it manually – which is a bunch of work and is really an inefficient way of doing it if you have many pages – or you can use a plugin.

    When it comes to plugins, there are two types you can use in this case,

    1- SEO specific: Like Yoast SEO

    2- General Function Like: Per Page add to Head

    The first one gives you a box which you can fill up under the post text in the editor. Then it generates the tag for the page automatically

    The second one just gives you an empty box in the same location – within the post editor – and you can put anything in there. It will not modify your input in any way shape or form. So you have to put the tag in the correct format for it to function. This means you have to put something like this

    <meta name="description" content="you put your description stuff here">

    Hope that helps.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by j09.
    Thread Starter geonomist

    (@geonomist)

    Big thanks for trying to be helpful. The problem persists.

    My WP internal page for writing a new post already has that little box (thanks to a plugin). However, putting my meta description in it does not stop that page, farther below with a red dot, from telling me to “specify” that meta description.

    Also, it tells me to put in a key word even after I’ve filled out that little box, too.

    So, am I doing something wrong or is this WP being stupid, asking me to do something I’ve done?

    Thanks.

    @geonomist

    You’re welcome.

    Wordpress by default does not have a Meta Description box. WordPress has a box called “excerpt” which it uses as the meta description for SEO purposes.

    I don’t know what plugin you’re using to get that meta description box that you are referring too.

    Could the plugin not be functioning properly? Maybe you should disable it and find an alternative?

    Thread Starter geonomist

    (@geonomist)

    Hi. It’s called “Meta Description”. It only has 3 stars. Can you suggest a better one?

    And WP still won’t recognize my key word, and that’s not plugin related, is it?

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter geonomist

    (@geonomist)

    PS

    So, “excerpt” suffices, and we don’t need a plugin for Meta Description?

    Thanks again.

    Thread Starter geonomist

    (@geonomist)

    Hi, j09. On my WP page for new posts, I see no box called “expert”, hence I had downloaded a plugin for “Meta Description”.

    BTW, can you recommend a plug in for StumbleUpon?

    Or one for visitors to click and go to the parent site in which the WP blog is embedded?

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