How to make meta description and title distinct from eachother?
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Hello,
I’m using the Adelle theme and the only way of changing the meta description is by going to the customize menu, clicking on the Site Title tab and editing the Tagline. I obviously want the meta description to be longer with more detail so that it enhances SEO. But it makes the website title look ridiculously long and unprofessional.
Any idea what can be done about this?
Many thanks.
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This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture. We bloggers cannot access metadata on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. Please read http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
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/
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-enginesWhat you are referring to is the optional Tagline. If you think adding more characters to a Tagline will benefit your blog in search engine page results then you are wrong. See here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/22/creating-an-effective-blog-tagline/
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. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. What is important is keywords found in your content. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/
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.
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Thanks for the heads up. You’ve educated me in that taglines aren’t used for SEO.
However, the question was how can I separate the tagline and the meta description because right now they are the same thing. What I type as the tagline on my Adelle theme customization page is what appears under my site name when its listed on google search. Even if it has no bearing on SEO, it will count toward people deciding whether they’ll click through or not.
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Choose a unique keywords for your site. They use those keywords in title and meta description.
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