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How to generate an automatic title and meta description for lots of pages
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Hi,
I'm working on a big website that will have new pages every month.
I would like to find a plug-in or something free to generate automatic title and meta description for futur new pages.
Thanks you for your help!
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As far as I know, Google will automatically pull up the Header 1 as your title and your meta description will be the first 160 characters of your blog post/page. Its more ideal to install a plugin like yoastseo and set up the title and meta description manually every time you create new pages. But if nothing is set, Google will automatically generate that for you. It can be bad for your on-page SEO if you have overly long H1 tags but it won't be too much of an effect. You would see it as an error every time you use tools to audit your website as well as not having a proper meta description.
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