I know that we use the meta desctiption tag to describe the contents of the website so the users who look for ertain info can be abe to see what this webpage is all about. But I was wondering the following. I use blogger’s platform where I can describe each page that I am about to post seperately. So I did this thinking. Why should I give a general meta description since I can give a unique description for every page that I post on Blogger(?) What will happen if I remove the tag?
From where? The meta description is really useful for telling search engines and potential site visitors what your page is about. It often appears in the Google results. So ideally, each page should have a description of its contents. It’s not clear what you are thinking of removing.
I am thinking to remove the meta description tag from the root file. I work with Blogger and Blogger uses XML.
I understand and I totaly agree with that but Blogger gives the opportunity to write a unique and seperate description for each post and I was thinking that if I have such an opportunity why should I have an extra meta descrption.
Maybe I explain this on a wrong way. Sorry about that.
Yeah, that’s where you’ve lost me. Whatever functionality a program/app has, the key is what it sends to the browser. You will only have/need/want one meta description per page. I presume you are talking about a post on a separate page. The fact that Blogger lets you create a unique meta description for the page your post appears on is great … so I don’t understand what the issue is.
Well, I am thinking of this right now. I will write a meta description that globally describes my blog and put it in blogger’s root file. And then, I will write a unique description for every blog post every time I publish one. Therefore, I will have two meta descriptions tags. One for each purpose.
Are you sure? If that’s the way blogger works, it’s broken. Check your HTML and see if that’s really what happens. I predict that, on an individual post page, the global meta will be replaced with the post-specific one. It’s no use having two per page.
The picture shows the xml code file of a particular blogpost. As you have probaly already notice, there are two meta descriptions tags in the page. The first is in line number 18 which describes the contents of the post and the second is in line number 21, which describes globally the general contents of the whole blog. Descriptions written in Greek but it doesn’t really matter.
It is obvious that I have two meta descriptions tags in the same page. If you ask me that I am not a pro I would answer that it is more natural to me and make much more sense for every page to have only one meta description per page.
As Ralph says, if that’s the way that Blogger works then it’s working badly. You should only have one meta description for each page. I would recommend not setting a global description, and then any pages where you haven’t set a specific one, Google can pull a snippet from the text content. Having generic site-wide blurb in the description is not helpful.
This is what I was trying to say in first place. Having a generic meta description is rather not so important or helpful as you said. Even if you do not write a meta description for a page it is also not so big trouble because, as you said, Google will pull a snippet for it in the SERP.
The problem here is that Google will automatically pull out some kind of an abstract snippet depending on what a user search for. In this point, writing a nice description for every page is a big help. A generic one is rather useless.
It tends to do that even if you do have your own meta description. I guess it’s helpful that Google does this, as it increases the chance that the searcher will click on the link to your site, seeing something relevant to the search.