Is it necessary for each single page within my website to have a unique metatag description?
Walter, Leiden, Netherlands
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If there is no meta tag description for a particular page does that me that page will not rank in searches ? If this is a silly question, pardon me I'm just new to this SEO stuff but I really need an answer
Hello!
Are these metadatas considered duplicate?
" Brown and Green Abstract Painting from X. Order original paintings directly from artist."
" Yellow and Black Abstract Painting from X. Order original paintings directly from artist."
Writing unique metadatas for each item could be daunting and irrelevant.
Tell the way that we put description for every pages in the website. thanks
How to handle generic header?
Like if we have a single header and we called it on every single page, how google will handle the request..
Thanks in advance!
Ananta
How about telling us the impact of duplicate meta tags description on SEO?
Thanks for this video…!!!
I've got the answer now 🙂
Since we set the meta-description for one of our websites manually for each and every page, we observe the click-through rate declining. I think it's best to leave it up to Google to take care of it.
Thanks for making this video direct and to the point.
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Hope that helps.
New from Google Don't bother with Meta Description unless it's an important page for conversion and such. Better leave it blank than have it duplicate across the website. Good to know. Time saved 🙂 #ftl #u
can somebody tell me, what kinds of duplicate meta descriptions ?
give me a sample please, i still a little bit confuse 🙁
According to Matt Cutts no meta description is better that duplicate meta descriptions.
I believe Yoast should add a feature to his plugin that checks if a specific meta description is duplicated or not. Perhaps, it's already available. Anybody in the know?
Is this just answering a different question? Is the meta description tag still used?
It can save the time. But can Google create what we intend to create from #SEO point of view?
Interesting
I wish all website platform providers followed this advice.
So plugins like Yoast's WordPress SEO that let you put in a generic meta description for pages that don't have custom descriptions is bad? Interesting
Am I wrong in thinking that Matt Cutts may just be making a usability best practices recommendation here, rather than laying out an SEO quality guideline? He is on record in 2009 as saying meta descriptions don't influence rankings. So has this changed or is yesterday's statement more about creating metas that are more useful to users?
Its good idea to Confirmation from +Matt Cutts. Having duplicate meta tag not a good things
This certainly cleared up a few thoughts I was having with meta descriptions, Thanks Matt Cutts
We have to keep in mind that google very often will show in the SERPs what they "think" matters more to you, so sometimes i think you can leave the description blank. but i tend to agree, either put original ones but not duplicate ones, makes sense. well done Matt Cutts
Una meta description unica per ogni singolo contenuto, altrimenti è meglio non inserirla. Una #SEO più chiara di così non si può. 🙂
Hey Matt! How about the title tag? Can we do away the title tag and focus on only h1 tag? ^^
Thank you so much #Mattcutts
(Oops….don't tell anybody…) It seems like Google wish that we all stop doing SEO and focus on content quality will do, perhaps with some important keywords existed in the content — so that snippets can be auto-generated with bold user search terms. ^^
It only takes a few minutes to write most meta descriptions and I think most bloggers know what they want it to say for best results.
How would you handle the meta description of paginating pages of i.e example a category which you broke down to 10 pages, but which you already have the link rels prev and next? Take out the meta descriptions from all pages 2-10?
Let me translate from Mattspeak into English for you.
Yes, it's preferable and more beneficial to have unique meta descriptions on each and every page of your website. However, if time and/or resources do not permit, then it's OK to have no meta description on the pages that don't have unique meta descriptions.
However, whatever you do…DO NOT have duplicate meta descriptions on any page.
Thanks matt. Thats the most natural way.