Meta titles and description for subcategory pages in CMS websites

[1akal]

I have a CMS based site and for that I am getting duplicate page title and description error message, for my all sub-category pages. What can I do for this because write Meta title and description for each page for CMS based website is not possible.

[Christy-Correll]

Hi there, thanks for your question! Do you mean that your CMS will not allow you to write titles and descriptions for each page? (Or, rather, that you cannot use the CMS to write titles and descriptions for each page.) If so, are they auto-generated? Finally, are you using a homegrown CMS, or something like Wordpress or Joomla?

[Kingof5]

Why do you say it's not possible? A good copywriter can knock out titles and meta descriptions for a few hundred pages in a day. It's worth paying for.

[danwebman]

1akal,

The answer to this is one that I have thought about very carefully in the past as we have thousands of pages on our website.

I first of all did this programmatically taking the first 150 letters of the body of each page, or description of a product.

I soon realised that the search results weren't exactly what I was after and soon found myself manually updating the extracted text to suit the product and search keywords.

Over the years I have edited the majority of the pages manually and constantly update the information as keywords drop out of top ranking pages.

You get out only what you put in in this case and if it means manually writing the content then so be it I'm afraid, but you may want to take the initial step of extracting some of the rich content in there first as a starter.