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Why does my website's description show for all my pages on google?

by Charleen
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I have been monitoring my search traffic through my online counter and I noticed that the search descriptions for my crawled pages are always the search description of my meta tag instead of relevant keywords from the pages' content?

Here is the link to my site I'm talking about: http://rededcity.com

How do I fix that?
#description #google #keywords #meta tag #pages #seo #show #website
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Delete your meta description.
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    • Profile picture of the author Charleen
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Delete your meta description.
      Wow! Is that actually a good idea?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by Charleen View Post

        Wow! Is that actually a good idea?
        Unless your page is targeting only one specific keyword and nothing else, not even related keywords, then yes.

        It's how Wikipedia does it.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Charleen View Post

        Wow! Is that actually a good idea? Here is the link to my site I'm talking about: http://rededcity.com
        Yes it's a good idea but you need to optimize small snippets of on-page text or image alt-text per each main keyword so they'll have decent looking SERP descriptions per each search query, otherwise you'll get a lot of broken text with ellipsis (example: some text here...more text here...).

        The major advantage of removing meta descriptions is you can literally create unlimited highly optimized SERP descriptions per keyword/phrase.
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        • Profile picture of the author Charleen
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          The major advantage of removing meta descriptions is you can literally create unlimited highly optimized SERP descriptions per keyword/phrase.
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          Delete your meta description.
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          Unless your page is targeting only one specific keyword and nothing else, not even related keywords, then yes.

          It's how Wikipedia does it.
          What about removing most of the meta tags in my head tag, like title tag, description tag, keywords tag etc...?
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          • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
            Originally Posted by Charleen View Post

            What about removing most of the meta tags in my head tag, like title tag, description tag, keywords tag etc...?
            The suggestion was to remove the meta description tag, wasn't it? And I agree, it's not a bad suggestion. Google's relevant snippets are often better than your lame text or CTA.

            Meta keywords are pointless unless you're targeting something like Baidu.

            Title tag should stay. It's very important.
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by Charleen View Post

            What about removing most of the meta tags in my head tag, like title tag, description tag, keywords tag etc...?
            Do not ever remove a title tag. The keyword tag is useless. You can dump that. Or don't. Really does not matter.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sherylpeter
    Yup remove meta keywords now a days google bot does not gives value but do not remove meta description and title.
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