How do you add a description to the Meta Description area to Tag Pages in Wordpress? This way I do not get the errors: "Missing Meta Description Tag" from SEOMoz Bot? Thanks!
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I tried to add descriptions to my tags in Wordpress (well actually one to test), but I still keep getting the "Missing Meta Description Tag" error. Any suggestions on how to fix this in Wordpress? Thanks!
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I have used the All In One SEO since the start, about 8 months now. Can I switch over to the SEO plugin by Yoast?
If so, is it simple or more complex?
And, are there any risks, potential problems, etc.?
I am relatively new to WordPress, but not so much to HTML.
Thanks,
Kurt
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In my WordPress site, I use the All In One SEO (Version 1.6.13.8) so I don't understand why I'm getting these Errors:
Missing Meta Description Tag - 50 errors
Warnings - 83
Notices - 128
Duplicate Page Content - 35
Too Many Onpage Links - 32
Duplicate Page Title - 18
4XX (Client Error) - 3More important than that to me is, I don't know how to fix these issues.
I have tried to fix the 'Missing Meta Description' error but it has me stumped, even with using the All In One SEO plugin from day 1 of setting up my site, which is CostaRicaDentalimplants.org (I hope it's ok to put that here?).
All the fields at the SEO are as follows:
| <a title="Click for Help!">Post Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Page Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Category Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Archive Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Tag Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Search Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Description Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">404 Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Paged Format:</a> | - Part %page% |I'm sure this looks rather elementary to the pros here, but I'm lost on how to fix any of these issues. I'd like to start with the "'Missing Meta Description'" just because I've been trying hardest on that one.
If anyone can give me any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. As you can tell, I'm fairly new at this. I have a decent grasp of HTML but WordPress is very new to me.
Kurt
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No problem, if you have any issues with it feel free to let me know. You can do a TON of different stuff with the WP template tags. For reference here is a page that lists all of the different tags in WP: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
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I do a some coding skills, so I will try this option first. If it's too much of a hassle I will use one of the plugin options. Thanks!.
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I thought about using those plugins (known about them for years), but was hoping the template I had would suffice. I guess I will use one of them. Thanks!.
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You can add Meta descriptions in wordpress 2 different ways. If you have a small site and want to simply add a generic description all you need to do is open up header.php in your themes directory and add the following code:
This will pull the site description that can be set in the "general settings" in the WP admin section. If you are looking to generate dynamic meta info then this is best done with a plugin (although it is not very hard to simply pull the excerpt or any post meta and have that display). That would look something like:
If you want to go the plugin route I would second the All in one SEO and SEO plugin by Yoast. Additionally Premium Dev offers an SEO plugin that is pretty sweet but you have to pay to get access to all their plugins so you are probably better off with the free ones.
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If you arent already, you should get either the SEO plugin by Yoast or the All in One SEO Pack for your WordPress install. Both of them will add fields on a per post and page level where you can enter your Meta information.
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Howdy! Are you using any plugins to control your tag descriptions? Scott
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