Smart Crawl not picking up my Meta Description

  • Resolved freem33

    (@freem33)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I implemented SmartCrawl on my website and it works well in providing an assessment and recommendations, however it doesn’t seem to be picking up my META descriptions.

    Perhaps it’s a compatibility issue with “Easy WP Meta Description”, another Plugin I had previously installed…

    Please advise / Thanks,

    Mark

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  • Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    Hello @freem33 ,

    I’m super sorry for the delay on our side, it looks like your post slipped through the cracks ??

    I checked your site and I can see that meta description is added, however, it is added twice.
    One description comes from the SmartCrawl plugin and the second one from Easy WP Meta Description. It looks like this plugin is still working on your site.
    I would suggest disabling it and let then SmartCrawl handle the description.

    kind regards,
    Kasia

    Thread Starter freem33

    (@freem33)

    Hi Kasia,

    I’ve spent 10s of hours customizing my Meta Descriptions via the Easy WP plugin.

    I didn’t realize that SmartCrawl was going to generate it’s own meta description – Now my SEO effectiveness has decreased due to multiple/conflicting descriptions!

    Can you make SmartCrawl ‘recognize’ the custom descriptions from Easy WP, or is there a way to stop SmartCrawl from generating an unwanted version of the meta descriptions?

    Thanks,

    Mark

    Plugin Support Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support6)

    Hello there @freem33,
    hope you’re doing well!

    You can disable the whole “Titles & Meta” module of SmartCrawl from SmartCrawl -> Settings -> General Settings as shown below:
    https://monosnap.com/file/vE0F8ec6q0WUGq3aaYwpO3Gh2TGkeH

    Thank you,
    Dimitris

    Thread Starter freem33

    (@freem33)

    Dimitris,

    Thanks – I made the change, however it appears (from Bing Webmaster tools) that I still have ‘multiple descriptions’ on >50 pages…

    Using Google search, I see that my correct/updated META descriptions are not always being displayed. Not sure if this is due to SmartCrawl, Hummingbird, Easy WP or something else.

    Testing continues…

    Mark

    Plugin Support Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support6)

    Hello there @freem33

    As long as you disable the SmartCrawl Titles & Meta then they should not be coming from there.
    Also, HummingBird doesn’t have to do anything with SEO metadata.
    So these should be coming from Easy WP and the active theme, as most of the themes nowadays are providing some SEO functionalities.
    In any case, a full conflict test is what can reveal the source of this to you: https://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Support-Process-Support-Process.gif

    Warm regards,
    Dimitris

    Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    Hello @freem33

    Hope all is well!

    We’ve not heard from you in a while. I’ve marked this ticket as resolved for now, but if you need anything else at all, we’re here for you, please just reopen the ticket or create a new one.

    Have a good day!

    Cheers,
    Nastia

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