meta description tag

  • Resolved joshmorison

    (@joshmorison)


    8 years, 11 months ago

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    Hi everyone,

    I recently engaged a design and dev team to build me a website and now the engagement is over I’ve noticed that none of my static pages have description tags. Obviously these are useful for SEO purposes.

    Can I only add these using a plugin or can I do it within the editor or theme somehow?

    Thanks,

    J

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    It’s not normally built into WordPress because the content of that tag is actually very non-important to SEO (not as non-important as a keywords field these days, but close).

    To add it in, I’d suggest looking at some of the SEO plugins that are available.

    Thread Starter joshmorison

    (@joshmorison)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Really? Googles webmaster tools continue to call it out under their HTML improvements. So do most SEO assessment tools that are out there so I figure it’s still valuable in some way. Unlike keywords which google and others have stated they’re ignoring.

    Any plug in recommendations?

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    All it does is show a more “crafted” snippet in the search result pages. The text in there doesn’t do much, if anything, for the overall pages rankings. Google likes it being there so that a: they don’t have to work out whatto show themselves, and b: they can catch out more ‘blakc-hat’ operators that use it for the wrong reasons.

    As far as recommendations, any on the list that I gave before will dothe job.

    Thread Starter joshmorison

    (@joshmorison)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for your help 🙂

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