Allow Description for blogs
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Currently WP doesn’t allow us to write descriptions for blog if I’m correct. Kindly let me know if their are options or else WP should allow this feature.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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@diamondpot
WordPress.com does not in any way prevent us from creating and displaying blog descriptions. I have my blog descriptions for each blog on my About page in each blog. If you need instructions for creating static pages then here is the link > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/Perhaps this is a request to include a blog description(s) section in our Profile. Is that what you mean? If so then I’d be delighted to see my avatar reduced in size to 128 x 128 pixels on that page, and I’d like to see a blog description(s) section added there too.
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@diamondpot: the description you have in mind. Who or what is it for? Prospective readers? Readers who want reminding why they come back to your blog? Search engines?
I’d say that WordPress provides for two descriptions of each blog. One is, as TT points out, the About page.
The other is the tagline, which many people use as a short description of the blog. To use a self-serving example:
Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing. -
If the description is longer than a tag line, and you want it to show on the main page, put it in a text widget at the top of the sidebar.
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@diamondpot
Your tags and categories are also a description of your blog.
At least they tell search engines, and potential readers with interests similar to yours that your blog is available. -
So that’s four descriptions of a WordPress blog: About; tagline; text widget; tags/categories. Any more bids? Do I hear five?
I’m still interested in the question: what’s the audience for this description?
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Huh?
What is the audience you are looking for?
tags and cats are certainly all over the seos…
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I am overwhelmed by receiving so many replies to my question. I thank all commentors specially TT and Andrew. The description I am talking about is the description in the meta tag which is shown as snippets at SE’s. I repeat its the description meta tag. I am not talking about “About Me” page which I know and I have done in my WP blog.
Thanks
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@diamondpot
We cannot access those files here at wordpress.com let alone edit them, as we are all blogging on the same wpMU (multiuser) blogging platform. and we need not worry about them as Matt Cutts of Gogle ahs made it clear that Google does not use meta description data any more and hasn’t for a long time except in snippets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS1Mw1Adrk0&feature=player_embeddedThe reason it’s not used except in occasional snippets is because the data was so easily manipulated by unethical web masters. However, old school SEO experts are still insisting that those they advise complete this meta data.
The bottom line for wordpress.com bloggers is clear use an effective tagline to define your blog’s keywords and brand and search engines will pick up those 67 characters.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/22/creating-an-effective-blog-tagline/ -
@diamondpot, thanks for clarifying. I suspect the following things:
1. You have read something like this: “changing your meta description tag won’t make your website rank higher. When we show snippets, we can sometimes use the meta description as the snippet that we show.” That’s from Matt Cutts of Google:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/
Note the word “sometimes.”2. You are over-thinking this.
3. You won’t believe point 2.
4. WordPress.com won’t let you specify the META stuff.
Actually, I more than suspect these things…
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I think I already covered that Andrew. The bottom line is that wordpress.com bloggers cannot access the meta description files and cannot edit them. However, we can create taglines and I know from my own experience that the search engines will pick up 67 characters of our taglines so using them effectively is the only solution for us wordpress.com bloggers.
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@tt, yes, not for the first time we were typing at the same time, saying much the same thing but in very different ways :)
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