You can't add meta description, but there's another way

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  hamikron · Member · Aug 2, 2013 at 4:44 am

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  and what you mean about step 1. ” add excerpts to my posts”?
  thx

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  hamikron · Member · Aug 2, 2013 at 4:54 am

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  whether we should add excerpts on each post?

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  kraftbj · Staff · Aug 5, 2013 at 2:18 pm

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  Hello all,

  Regarding the duplicate meta description notice in Google Webmaster Tools, we’re looking into this issue and I’ll let you know when I have additional information to pass along.

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  hadingrh · Member · Aug 5, 2013 at 7:52 pm

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  @hamikron
  Yes you’re correct, you should add excerpts on each post.
  Please see this screenshot http://www.flickr.com/photos/99865131@N07/.
  I still have 1 duplicate meta descriptions left (previously I have dozens duplications). I believe all duplicates will be cleaned on GWMT on the next crawls.

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  lmdl09 · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 7:54 pm

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  @kraftbj

  Am also experiencing the same duplicate meta tag issue in GWT (100+ and counting), so will be awaiting your update.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Aug 20, 2013 at 2:44 pm

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  Hi folks,

  We believe we’ve fixed the cause on this on our end, though, the warnings may continue to display for you until the next time Google crawls your site.

  Thanks for your patience and please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks for using WordPress.com!

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  tandava108 · Member · Aug 20, 2013 at 2:49 pm

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  Thanks, I’ve checked my “page source” and it looks good!

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  hadingrh · Member · Aug 20, 2013 at 4:18 pm

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  Dear @kraftbj,
  I’m very excited about this news.
  Could you describe what fixes have you been made?
  Is it related to meta title on pagination problem?
  If it is. Yes, you’ve made us happy. Thank you.
  But I still see a possible duplication on meta descriptions at paginations.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Aug 20, 2013 at 6:59 pm

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  Hi Hadi,

  The particular fix changes the way meta descriptions were generated by using the post content when an explicit excerpt is not present on a single-post page (as opposed to only using the site’s tagline), as well as not generating a meta description on a password-protected post.

  Paginations are a bit more interesting since the post’s excerpt would be the same between the pages of a paginated post and archives (/page/2/, date-based, etc) would use the site tagline.

  We’ll bat this around a bit more for the next iteration.

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  hadingrh · Member · Aug 20, 2013 at 8:30 pm

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  Hello Brandon,
  Glad to hear that. WordPress bloggers would be glad to have those fixes. And soon they will eliminated troubles on GWT, and stay on top on googles SERP for their posts (I was glad I found the excerpt as the way to manipulate the meta description outputs, so many of my posts could ranked on #1 on google local search).

  WordPress is awesome, you guys too.