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[resolved] Meta Description Not Showing Up At All (8 posts)

  1. dmcagulada
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    It appears it's using the tagline description for every page and or post instead of the meta description box in wordpress seo

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

  2. Joost de Valk
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    I'll need a URL to be able to help you. Probably your theme is f*cking up.

  3. dmcagulada
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    Hi Joost, thanks for your reply. Here it is: http://topdogsocialmedia.com/

  4. Joost de Valk
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    As expected, your theme has this:

    <meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Kelowna social media marketing, social media marketing, kelowna social media, social advertising, kelowna facebook, kelowna twitter, kelowna rss, kelowna youtube, kelowna linkedin" />

    Above the output of my plugin, throw that out of your header.php or wherever it is and it should be better.

  5. dmcagulada
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    I stripped those out and it was still using the tag line. So in the Titles section of the configuration I used %%excerpt%% in the Meta description template and now it's working. Thanks.

  6. Joost de Valk
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    Glad it's resolved.

  7. edbmarsh
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Hello Mr. Joost de Valk - I am struggling with a similar issue. I believe I have stripped out all the theme code but am not very expert with this stuff.

    this is an example of a page with a meta description written in your plug in tool. http://consiliumglobalbusinessadvisors.com/who_consilium_global/us/principals/ed_marsh/

    this is how the plugin titles page is set
    Page
    Title template:%%title%%
    Meta description template:%%excerpt%%
    Meta keywords template:

  8. peterkmatz
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Hello

    Same sort of thing, I believe.

    Would you strip out this script which sits just above the title <title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>?

    <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
    <meta name="show-menu-auto-arrows" content="<?php echo ($purevision_options['show_menu_auto_arrows']) ? 1 : 0; ?>" />
    <meta name="show-menu-drop-shadows" content="<?php echo ($purevision_options['show_menu_drop_shadows']) ? 1 : 0; ?>" />

    <title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

    My site is French and English using WPML and I'm having a heck of a time trying to get Google search results to work properly.

    Many thanks!
    Peter Matz

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