hi all
Google webmaster tools show duplication meta description tags on some of my webpages.
so is it fine to totally remove meta description tags from those pages.
will deleting them do any harm.
vineet
Mostly this error happens only when you use same meta tag and meta description through out the website. Better try to create different meta tags and descriptions. Then problem will be solved.
As my website is dynamic, what to do if i m not able to create different meta tags.
will removing meta tags do any harm ?
vineet
Ignore that warning.
It just Google’s way to stick it nose where it doesn’t belong.
There is no punishment, at least not yet, that you will get for duplicate meta tags
it’s just G. is telling you what it has found around your site.
fastreplies
If you want to remove the meta descriptions that is fine for Google, but realize your site may either not have a meta description in the search results or Google will decide what to show as the search results snippet, so as long as you are comfortable with that it is ok to remove them. For the other search engines I am not sure how they handle blank meta descriptions.
Regarding ignoring these errors, personally I think it is important to address them. Here is the reason why, Google is working hard to determine the quality of a website, and while Google has not said that errors in Webmaster Tools play any role in rankings, if you have lots of errors in there and you do not fix them, I think that is a clear signal to Google that you are not properly maintaining your site which could say something about the quality of it. Why give Google any reason to think your site is not well maintained and high quality.
Also duplicate meta descriptions and/or duplicate titles can be a sign of bigger problems on your site, such as duplicate content on different URLs. So I believe it is always a good idea to review these errors and correct them whenever possible.
Come on @revium, be real.
G. recognizes that there is no way you can maintain different titles and descriptions around 100,000, 10,000, 1,000 or even 100 pages and that is why in WMT it says that this is just what G. has found in your site and that you don’t have to take that as a warning.
And yes, if site has fixable errors, then it would be advisable for owner to take care of them for site’s own benefit.
fastreplies
I am not saying you can always fix all of them, but I think it is irresponsible to just ignore them. I have worked on many large sites where it is not possible or worth the time to fix all of them (such as paginated articles), but many of them are correctable, and they usually arise because of an issue in the architecture.
fastreplies is absolutely correct that it is not possible to make different title and meta description if your site is having hundreds of pages. But I suggest you that if your important pages like home page and other important landing pages have same title and meta description then make them unique. So it will be easy to rank higher for the pages.
If you’re looking at search engine optimisation, you need to pay attention to what search engines want and what they say. Google is by far the biggest search engine – ignore it at your peril.
There’s a good reason why you should ensure your titles and meta descriptions are unique, as far as possible. If they’re all the same, you’ll just get a load of identical entries in the search results, which makes it much harder for people to find the right page. And if people don’t find the right page straight away, you’re in danger of losing them for good.
Is that so? One of my websites has over 1000 pages, and every one of them has a unique title and description. If there wasn’t something unique to say about them, why would I have separate pages? The only time where that might not be possible is where you have content pulled from a database in response to a query.
Granted but…
where does it says that different titles and descriptions are mandatory and G. wants them?
Agree, it would be good practice where ever and when ever it’s possible but that is as far as it goes.
And I can show you pages high in SERP that missing titles and descriptions but in there because of pages content itself.
fastreplies
Yes, that is so.
Why?
Because of what you’ve said below and where I agree with you 100%.
Yes we can add manually different titles and descriptions to maybe 100, 300 or even 1,000 directories. categories and sub-categories but what about 300,000 static pages generated by script which spits the same titles and descriptions?
I hope you don’t want us… I know G. doesn’t… to go and change every titles and descriptions in every page generated by script only loose all those changes next time we will generate/upgrade database.
ooops, I’m not @seork
fastreplies
I dont think you should delete them. Try and make them all unique, it is usually possible to do this even if it is dynamic.