What is the best meta description for Category Pages, Tag Pages and Main Article?

[mbmozmb]

Hi,

I want to index all my categories and tags. But I fear about duplicating the meta description.

for example:

I have a tag name "Learn Stock Market", a category name "Learning", and a main article "What is Stock Market".

What is your suggestion for meta description of these three pages that looks great for seo google?

[Nigel_Carr]

Hi MB

It's perfectly OK to rank articles and categories as long as you can justify them. For example, the primary keywords would be:

Category:  'Stock Market Training''

Article: What is The Stockmarket?

All well and good so far. You would make the primary keywords distinct and different for each and that would work well.

Once you introduce tags like Learn Stock Market - everything falls apart. They cut across and cannibalize the category and articles and so have no worth. It will ruin your efforts for the other two.

Write some compelling SEO text for the category page, up to 1000 words may do but check the competition and have just a short summary of each article on there with links to the articles.

No index the tags.  Trust me it's the correct way to go.

Nigel

[CraigBradford]

Hi,

That sounds like a very standard set up so you shouldn't have much to worry about. The only thing to be aware of if whether you really need tags and categories as opposed to just having one of the other. If you do, for instance, you might decide to keep tags for navigational purposes, I'd consider noindexing the tag pages. By not indexing them, they won't cannibalise your category pages, but you still get the benefit of the user experience of having tags that visitors can use for navigation.

Craig