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SEO advice for new website needed please.

by livetvaccess
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Hi,

I need your help please.

I'm building classifieds website and I don't know what is the best practice regarding the meta keywords and meta descriptions, I already created both knowing that the meta keywords are no longer important but search engines might look at them.

Regarding the Meta Description: what is the best practice? I've done like all the established websites by writing the same sentence and just changing the category name, for Example: Buy Antiques in London or sell yours for free today on examplesite.com.

Will google consider this spam as the website is still new and there are no listings there to correspond to the meta description?

Keeping in mind that if I have over 2000 Categories and it will take me forever to write a unique meta description for each one.

Or Shall I use the keywords in the meta description instead?

You advice is much appreciated.

Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author options
    If your using wordpress you should be able to setup yoast to pull data from your page titles and content
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You're wasting your time & do not need meta descriptions.

    Look around, Wikipedia has millions of pages without meta descriptions. When you don't have a meta description on the page Google pulls the most relevant text from the webpage based on the search query instead of canned one size fits all text.

    Thousands of categories? You're obviously scraping authority sites that will outrank your pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author apsarasisodia
    For a new website you need to make search engines aware that there exists a website on WWW. So, submit your website on search engines, do directory submissions, classified ads, and also don't forget to do business listing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elion Makkink
    Originally Posted by yukon View Post

    You're wasting your time & do not need meta descriptions.
    I disagree, your meta description also determines your CTR in the SERPS and CTR is a rankingfactor.

    What I would suggest is to see if you could create a template for the metadescription using excel or your own CMS. Something like:

    Buy [product/category] in [city/place] or sell yours for free today on [website]. Visit [website] now to get started for free.

    Finally, you do not need meta keywords. They don't have any impact for SEO anymore.
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    • Profile picture of the author livetvaccess
      Originally Posted by Elion Makkink View Post

      I disagree, your meta description also determines your CTR in the SERPS and CTR is a rankingfactor.

      What I would suggest is to see if you could create a template for the metadescription using excel or your own CMS. Something like:

      Buy [product/category] in [city/place] or sell yours for free today on [website]. Visit [website] now to get started for free.

      Finally, you do not need meta keywords. They don't have any impact for SEO anymore.

      First, Thank you all for your replies, and special thanks to Elion.

      I have three questions for you Elion please:

      1- I have already done the Meta descriptions for all categories in .csv file as you mentioned above, but will google consider this duplication or spam as I'm using most of the same sentence for all categories?

      2-If I include keywords which I know people are searching for at the end of that sentence, will that be beneficial?

      3-If I use the keywords in the Meta description, which will make the length on average 300 characters, is that OK or that will have the opposite effect on the website's SEO by penalising it?

      Thank you very much
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  • Profile picture of the author PraveenkumarElango
    Hello livetvaccess

    Answer for 1st question: Google won't consider this as duplication or spam. . More than 95% of dynamic websites are using this concept. "Buy [product/category] in [city/place] or sell yours for free today on [website]. Visit [website] now to get started for free."

    Answer for 2st question: If you can use targeted keyword in Meta description, then it's very easy to improve ranking.

    Answer for 3rd question: Google won't penalising your website because of this reason"300 characters in Meta description" . You can include one targeted Long tail Keyword in Meta description and write around 150 characters.
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    • Profile picture of the author livetvaccess
      Originally Posted by PraveenkumarElango View Post

      Hello livetvaccess

      Answer for 1st question: Google won't consider this as duplication or spam. . More than 95% of dynamic websites are using this concept. "Buy [product/category] in [city/place] or sell yours for free today on [website]. Visit [website] now to get started for free."

      Answer for 2st question: If you can use targeted keyword in Meta description, then it's very easy to improve ranking.

      Answer for 3rd question: Google won't penalising your website because of this reason"300 characters in Meta description" . You can include one targeted Long tail Keyword in Meta description and write around 150 characters.
      Thank you PraveenkumarElango, could you please confirm that if I use this concept (Sentence) and add the long tail Keywords in Meta description, which will bring the Meta description's total to average 300-600 characters, it shouldn't have a negative impact on the website's SEO? Sorry to ask again due to adding the keywords.

      Thank you very much
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  • Profile picture of the author hichamaziz
    this do not need meta descriptions
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    You can create quality and related back links & Social Media Marketing .
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  • Profile picture of the author 3wCorner
    You can write anything in your meta description. When you are concern with the placement of your page, then include your keywords in your meta description. As long as it's unique and enticing to readers, your meta description will be effective.
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  • Profile picture of the author SahaayNisha
    Hi,

    For the all websites, SEO will not be same, but yes the characters in the meta title and description should be same (Title – 50 to 60 characters, Description – 140 characters). You need to work on all onpage activities including ALT Tags, Heading Tags and Content optimization)

    After, all these onpage stuff, start with offpage activities. This will generate backlinks and boost your ranking too.
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