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Thanks for all your answers, I understand putting nothing is the worse option. For other options, it depends on the tools provided by the website, but taking the first 150 characters is the right thing to do when no more accurate method is available.

Thanks again

Hello,

I apologize in advance because the question must have already been posted, but 90% of my searches in "Search for a Question" drive me to a "no questions found" (i would be nice to improve this aspect of the Pro Q&A Forum 

So, a friend of mine asked to me what he should put for the meta description of automatically generated pages for his project. He has no tool to set a customized meta description for every page (and does not want to find one !) but he asked me the following : what is the less worse between :

• put the first words of the content (150 characters)

• put nothing and let google find what will be the better parts of the content for the user request

• put the whole content (600 characters) in order to avoid having just the begining of the content, which is not always useful in that case

Did anyone try these options, what would be the less unproductive ?

Thanks

Loïc

Thank you Ryan, your answer is really detailed and I am going to stop checking for my domain authority for a while, and thus keep more energy for finding other links !

Loïc

Hello,

It is three weeks I have begun link building to a client website through partnerships and neither Google (link:mysite.com) nor Roger are seing any of these backlinks

Any idea what is the time commonly needed for small and new websites (no trafic at the moment) to see domain authority growing ?

Loïc

Great, that's perfect for me then

Loïc

Well, thank you SeoConsult, I will give a try but I don't use a Microsoft system at the moment.

Hi everybody,

I wonder how to find and quickly correct 404 errors in my crawl reports : SeoMoz says me "http://domain.com/this-page-is-dead" is 404, but I can't figure out a source page where a link to that url appears.

I tried a google link:http://domain.com/this-page-is-dead request, with no more luck.

I imagine the trick is trivial, but I need it

Moreover, why do not show a list of pages referring to this 404 page on reports ?

Thanks, Loïc

Thanks a lot Adam!

Hello,

I am sure this newbie question has been sent millions of times, but I couldn't find it with the new Q&A forum search...

So, how many characters should I use in my description meta tag ?

Thanks for sharing

Loïc

Thanks for all your answers, I understand putting nothing is the worse option. For other options, it depends on the tools provided by the website, but taking the first 150 characters is the right thing to do when no more accurate method is available.

Thanks again