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How to change meta description for home page

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Tina Spruk
11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

Like the title sudgest how do i change meta description for home page when i checked my webite on google search my meta description was taken from the first Circle icon widget how do i add my own meta description for the first main page?

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Tina

    The easiest solution is to install the awesome WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. Once installed click on SEO > Titles and Meta > Home and edit your home page meta data there.

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

  2. Tina Spruk 11 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you i installed it and changed it’s “Meta description template:” in tab “Homepage” .
    Do you know how long will it take for google or other browsers to update the description?

    again thank you for your help

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 10 months ago

    No problem, glad you sorted it out. I can’t say when your site will next be crawled. To help it along also sign up for Google Webmaster Tools. You can enter your Webmaster ID into WordPress SEO to handle the site verification.

  4. Tina Spruk 11 years, 10 months ago

    Again thank you :D

  5. Julien Jégard 11 years, 6 months ago

    hi
    i just bought vantage and installed it on http://www.pokerbastards.com and I have the same issue wiht meta description but I can not change meta with wordpress SEO because SEO options/fields are not available for pages (tab does not show!).
    It looks like there is a issue but i don’t understand from where. I have desactivated all plugin and activated them again one by one.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    thank you

    • Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

      Hi Julien

      On any given page click the Screen Options drop down top right and ensure that WordPress SEO is checked.

      Hope that helps. For further assistance please open a new support thread for us.

      Thanks

  6. Julien Jégard 11 years, 6 months ago

    thank you for you anwser.
    unfortunatly there is NO wordpress SEO option in this screen option. I see it on articles but not on pages. It makes me crazy.

  7. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    It should be there. I’m not sure what else to try here. Some standard troubleshooting steps would be to:

    Dashboard > Updates, update everything that has a pending update.
    Disable all plugins besides Yoast and re-check.
    Change to a default WordPress theme like Twenty Fourteen and re-check.

    If you have no luck with the above it would be best to open a forum topic on the WordPress SEO plugin page, hopefully they’ll be able to assist further.

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