Meta description tag missing in crawl diagnostics
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Each week I've been looking at my crawl diagnostics and seomoz still flags a few pages with missing meta description although they are definitely in there. Any ideas on why this would be happening?
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The first thing I notice is you do have two different pages
http://www.britishhardwoods.co.uk/oak-skirtings-architraves.php
http://www.britishhardwoods.co.uk/oak-skirtings-architraves.php/
The page with the "/" on the end is actually a different physical page. Both pages have the identical content presented differently. At a glance I would guess the page with the "/" ending is for users who view your site from a cell phone or with older browsers. Either way you need to canonicalize these pages. Right now those pages will show up as duplicate content to Google.
As to your initial post, both versions of the page do contain a proper meta description. Their length is good at around 110 characters.
I would check these pages in the crawl report for other issues. Perhaps it is getting confused. The canonical piece is a big concern which should be addressed immediately.
Good luck.
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Hi Ryan,
This is the URL - http://www.britishhardwoods.co.uk/oak-skirtings-architraves.php
Really appreciate your help
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That's strange as we don't currently use CMS for our site.
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Can you offer an example of a page with the problem? I have a couple ideas.
Please copy/paste the URL from the crawl report instead of typing it.
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The same is happening to a couple of our clients in their crawl errors. I think it must just be a bit of a bug... only happening with clients that use CMS though, not plain old HTML sites.
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