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question on meta description and content

by salesfeed
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say my meta description reads "blue widgets in town are great" and the first bit of content reads "blue widgets in town are great" would this be flagged as duplicate content issue?
#content #description #meta #question
  • Profile picture of the author GGpaul
    When I don't mess with the meta descriptions, it copies the first sentences of my content when it comes to the search engines.

    So....like if I wrote this as my first sentences

    "Kobe Bryant is one hot sexy (*@#. He is considerably the best basketball player alive. However, Lebron James is on the rise. OH NO!"

    Then that would also show when the page gets indexed assuming I don't do any type of changes on the meta descriptions.

    If you want to play with the meta descriptions go for it. But be more clever than that, cause you might as well just leave it as is.
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  • Profile picture of the author Capbell
    No, of course it isn't flagged as "duplicate content". I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, but think about it, it makes no sense.

    Meta description should be used to summarise what the article is about in order to allow people on search engines to decide whether it is relevant to their search and click through or not.

    I recommend you read up on "duplicate content" as you clearly do not understand what it is - no offence intended.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jose Princely
    No. Not Duplicate Issue for this.. Only if the same description used some where in another domain or same domain it is duplicate
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  • Profile picture of the author suraj0123
    Ya I agree with you ... No ,Its same but It will not count in duplicate and also you dont have to change your duplicate content issue Carry on thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author salesfeed
    Thanks it just seems from recent EMD changes that sites which have exact keyword in both page title <h1> and meta description were hit hard.

    I also noticed in top results for city searches you often don't see blue widgets city exact match in meta description for no 1.

    Normally its something like "x company we offer widgets which happen to be blue and more"

    Despite your search being for "blue widgets city"

    Also @ Capbell I raised "duplicate" content issues because WMT had flagged some websites for duplicate meta descriptions under optimisation tab.
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