Meta description tag problems according to an seo tool

[ClaireH-184886]

hi, my site is www.in2town.co.uk

I am using an seo tool to check on my site and how to improve the seo. The tool is here. http://www.juxseo.com/report/view/51ebf9deab900

for some reason it has brought up errors, it claims i have not got a meta description even though i have and have doubled checked in my source code

the errors it has brought up is as follows, and i would like to know if this is a fault of the seo tool or am i doing something wrong

Does the description tag exist?0/1

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Description Tag:

Explanation: The meta description tag does not help your rankings but it is your opportunity to encourage prospects to click. The meta description should describe the content of your web page, include a strong call to action, and include your keyword.

Action: Make sure you are using the meta description tag. It is found in the section of your page.

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it also says about the canocial tag which it claims i have more than one

Is the canonical tag optmized?

Is there only one canonical tag?0/4

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Explanation: You only need one of these to direct a search engine. Don't muddy the waters.

Action: Make sure you only have one canonical tag. This only applies if you use the canonical tag.

any help and advice would be greatregards

[ClaireH-184886]

just to let you know that i have now sorted the issues on the home page and we have jumped from page nine in google to pay six in the past 12 hours. so many thanks for your help it has done wonders.

can you let me know about the below as i have looked at we see it with the www.

On you health page it has the canonical URL of http://in2town.co.uk/health-magazine (I don't remember wether it was with or without www) - and this is the proper way to do it.

[ClaireH-184886]

thanks for this. i am having it re done on the home page as there were two of them

hi it should be with the www.

i can see it as

<link href="[http://www.in2town.co.uk/health-magazine](view-source:http://www.in2town.co.uk/health-magazine)" rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" />

[jorgen_juel]

Yes, if you prefer the www prefix, that is what should should do.

If you put this in a dynamic header (like one in a theme) it will appear on every page, yes.

however, on your site it looks like it has been properly implemented already (at least last time I checked)

On you health page it has the canonical URL of http://in2town.co.uk/health-magazine (I don't remember wether it was with or without www) - and this is the proper way to do it.

[ClaireH-184886]

so basically i should get rid of this one

<link href="[http://in2town.co.uk/](view-source:http://in2town.co.uk/)" rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" /> and put the one i had in 

but if i put this in the head, this will mean it will be shown on every page unless i am wrong

[jorgen_juel]

Hi again,
Sure.

A canonical link is used to tell the search engines, browsers, etc what your prefered link is.
For instance, lets say you have a website with a page containing a parameter: http://www.yoursite.com/page.html?parameter=this - but you only want google to crawl the content for both http://www.yoursite.com/page.html?parameter=this, http://www.yoursite.com/page.html?parameter=that and http://www.yoursite.com/page.html. The solution is to set the canonical url to http://www.yoursite.com/page.html - that sets the prefered url to the specified canonical url.

So if you prefer to use http://www.in2town.co.uk instead of just http://in2town.co.uk the element you specified is the correct use for your home page. This should be done one every page as you have already done.

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Jørgen Juel

[ClaireH-184886]

can i ask you if that canonical looks ok on line 14 as the one i told them to put on was on 63, and that included the site name as we had trouble with our site being known as in2town.co.uk and www.in2town.co.uk

the below is the one i instructed them to show

[jorgen_juel]

Great, thanks

[ClaireH-184886]

thanks for this jorgen juel, i had the canonical put on today and a redirect and since then the meta description has vanished, i need to speak to the person who done it as when i clear my cache it appears again but when i move to another page and go back again it vanishes.

I will sort out the two canonical links now and see what happens. thank you for letting me know where they are. i will keep you updated

[jorgen_juel]

Hi @tim ellis,

I've had a look at your site and it looks like you don't have any meta description or keywords tags.

The code for your description and keywords tags are as follows

The other question you had, regarding canonical links; you have two links to canonical - one on line 14 and 63.

I hope this helps

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Jørgen Juel