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Page Description - 12/17/2004 19:54:06
I was helping a friend out with their website (friend's site) and ran into a question. They were looking into SEO and ran their site against this system: SEO site It came up with nothing for a page description, yet it shows a description for the meta tag description. My question is simply, what is the difference between "Page Description" annd "Meta Tag Description"?
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RE: Page Description - 12/18/2004 0:43:33
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My question is simply, what is the difference between "Page Description" annd "Meta Tag Description"?
I have no idea what you mean by "Page Description". Can you give us an example please?
Search engines look for the Meta Tag named "description".
If you have one but are getting an error, make sure that you have the syntax correct. It should look something like the following code, but of course, the content will contain a real description of your site.
<meta name="description" content="A full, helplful description of your site here.">
One hint I picked up somewhere along the way, is to ensure that there are no line breaks (carriage returns) within each meta tag. If one is so long that it goes off your screen and you have to scroll to see all of it - that is fine and is what is required. If I need to see it all at once, I copy and paste into Notepad (with word wrap enabled), make my changes or additions, then paste back into the html. Apparently some search bots stop reading at a line break.
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RE: Page Description - 12/18/2004 12:26:21
Thanks for your reply, Kitka. I would appreciate it if you could try out the two links I provided in my original message. One is the site in question, and the other is where it was "checked". Where it is checked is what I am not understanding the results. What you say makes sense, and that is how I've done all of my sites. The results from the "checking" site is what confusing to me. I'm not sure how they are determining the difference of Meta description vs description. For the heck of it I ran "www.seoconsultants.com" and "www.frontpagewebmaster.com" against it. SEOConsultants comes out fine but FrontPageWebmaster does not (no description, although there is a meta description). BUT, I don't see a real difference in how the description tags are done.
I emailed the place a few days ago asking them what the difference is and they have not replied. I'm thinking there is no difference, but am wondering why it is picking up some descriptions/keywords and not others in their review.
My friend likes this "checking" site because it gave a percantage of compliance. This is the first I've seen of the site. And, I'm not thinking too highly of them since they wouldn't email back with any type of response.
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RE: Page Description - 12/18/2004 19:13:34
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BUT, I don't see a real difference in how the description tags are done.
Hi Brian,
You have a line break in the meta tag "description". I very much suspect that to be the problem. Also, try changing the upper case "D" in description to lower case, although that really shouldn't make any difference.
Good luck.
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RE: Page Description - 12/18/2004 19:39:53
Yeah, I saw that. I've asked my friend to change that so we could see if it improves it. That's why I listed here too, www.frontpagewebmaster.com which also is having the same problem. It is weird why they are listing strange on this site. There must be no difference in the two, but I am curious why it sometimes shows up on some sites and not others. Was just hoping for an answer. Thanks for taking the time to look!
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RE: Page Description - 12/18/2004 20:31:45
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www.frontpagewebmaster.com which also is having the same problem.
This site also uses an upper case D for "description". So I'm now strongly suspecting that might be the answer to the riddle.
The text for their description is short and there are no line breaks evident, so that can't be the issue.
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RE: Page Description - 12/18/2004 21:07:01
LOL! Yep, you hit it right on the head. It was the "D" doing it. I changed another clients site with a capital "D" and it got the same results, bad. I split the line and it had no effect. Sheesh, what a silly program they have. Or, at least I wouldn't think it should be case sensitive. Anyway, I can at least let my friend know how it can get recognized by that place.
thanks again!
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