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Web CEO says I have too many Meta Description tags in my WP Blog What can I get rid of?

by Christian Fox
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Web CEO;
1. You have too many META Description tags! 2 META Description tags were detected on your page! Writing more than one META Description tag will waste your time but will not have any real positive influence on your rankings. You may safely remove all META descriptions except the first one.

My Header.php From Blog;

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title><?php if(get_option('ds_home_title') && is_home()) echo stripslashes(get_option('ds_home_title')).' &raquo; '; ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<style type="text/css" media="all">
@import url("<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/css/reset.css");
@import url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>");
<?php if(get_option('ds_custom_css')) { ?>
@import url("<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/custom.css");


I don't know if it's even going to help me to remove the extra meta tag but I'd like to know why I am getting this error and if it could be hurting my SEO in any way.

Input appreciated, thanks.

All of my WP blogs have this issue.
#blog #ceo #description #meta #rid #tags #web
  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    Maybe you have a plugin inserting an additional description meta tag?
    You need to check the generated html of the site, not the header.php file.
    Visit the site and right click on the screen and click "View Source" in IE or "View Page Source" in FF.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Fox
    Here it is.....

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
    <title>Tinnitis- Cure Tinnitus Best Selling Natural Cure</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <meta name="description" content="tinnitis" />
    <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
    <style type="text/css" media="all">
    @import url("http://tinnitis.net/wp-content/themes/AffiliateTheme-Multi/css/reset.css");
    @import url("http://tinnitis.net/wp-content/themes/AffiliateTheme-Multi/style.css");
    @import url("http://tinnitis.net/wp-content/themes/AffiliateTheme-Multi/custom.css");
    </style>
    <style type="text/css" media="print">
    @import url("http://tinnitis.net/wp-content/themes/AffiliateTheme-Multi/css/print.css");
    </style>


    <link rel="pingback" href="http://tinnitis.net/xmlrpc.php" />


    <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://tinnitis.net/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
    <link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://tinnitis.net/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" />
    <script type='text/javascript' src='http://tinnitis.net/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.2.6'></script>
    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.7.1" />


    <!-- platinum seo pack 1.2.3 -->
    <meta name="robots" content="index,follow,noodp,noydir" />
    <meta name="description" content="Tinnitis.net The Internets best selling all natural Tinnitus cure guaranteed to stop the ringing for good or your money back." />
    <meta name="keywords" content="Tinnitis" />
    <!-- /platinum one seo pack -->
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Fox
    Looks like my Platinum SEO pack is making another tag. Should I just delete the first one? I wonder where it is pulling that from my standard word press install?

    The tagline? If I omit that it says I have no H1 tags, I know that is def not good.

    If it is not hurting my SEO I'll just leave it alone but I'd like to know for sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    The easiest thing to do would be to remove the description tag from header.php.
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