On Page question
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HI folks, I have a warning that I have missing meta tag descriptions on two pages.
1) http://bluetea.com.au/wp-login.php
2) http://bluetea.com.au/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
Is this something I should just ignore? Or is there a best practice I should be implementing?
Thank you for your time
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The noindex tag needs to appear in the HTML head of the page. I am not familiar enough with WP to say if that can happen as part of the default software, but my guess would be a SEO plugin may be necessary.
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Hey Ryan quick question.. can I add the non index tag on wordpress if that is what the site uses or do I need to be in the code....
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Thanks Jacob
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Thanks Ryan your always a great help
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thanks Julie
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You actually want to noindex, nofollow your login page. So as mentioned, you can ignore it, but I would go one step further and block it from the search results.
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I agree with Julie but will make an additional suggestion: add the noindex tag to the page. There is no reason for your login page to be indexed. The addition of this tag should remove the warning as well.
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Ignore it - there is no reason to put a meta tag description on a page that you don't want indexed, like a log-in page.
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