How Can I Change my Meta Description?

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  margueritemarkiemadden · Member · Nov 24, 2014 at 3:34 am

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  I’ve been reading up on building websites/making them better, and one thing I don’t understand it the meta description. I know meta as being encoded data that Amazon and other retailers use to describe my books in their systems, but it’s not something that’s seen by the consumer. What is meta data in my WordPress and how can I change it?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2014 at 5:03 am

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  You don’t have any control over the meta description here at WordPress.com.

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  thehollywoodlawyer · Member · Nov 24, 2014 at 9:30 pm

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  So, how do we go about changing any title tags, meta tags, or description tags – all key components to SEO?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 24, 2014 at 9:35 pm

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  We cannot access metadata and we do not need to access it. This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture and we bloggers cannot access metadata. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

  That being said it’s of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. The reason why is clear and it was the abusive behavior of SEO gaming webmasters.

  Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. See:
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/12/05/keyword-power-in-the-blogging-world/

  WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.

  Please read:
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2014 at 9:55 pm

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  Short form: stop reading outdated SEO material designed to sell you plugins.