Sunday, March 10, 2013

Fix Duplicate Meta Description Error in Posts and Homepage

Fix Duplicate Meta Description Error in Posts and Homepage

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Fix Duplicate Meta Description Error in Posts and Homepage

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Duplicate meta descriptionsThis is a quick post on a crawling error that was causing issues for most of you. For over a year we were all scratching our heads on why Blogger is showing two meta descriptions for homepage and post pages. Webmaster tools shows duplicate meta description error for blogger homepage and individual item pages that are posts. If you view your blog's source file then you will find two meta descriptions for the same page. One below <head> tag and one just above <title> tag. This double occurrence of meta tags for description appeared when blogger introduced Search preferences last year that offered blogspot users to insert dynamic description for every post they publish. This option is present inside Blogger's Post editor as "Search Description".

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