Something I'm missing META Description
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When using the SEOMoz on page analysis for "luxury marquee hire" on www.katalysticevents.com it's telling me I have no meta description but my source code includes the following:
Line 94 <meta property="<a class="attribute-value">og:description</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">Katalystic Events - Luxury Marquee Hire</a>" /> Being a real newbie am I missing something here? I've included the info uploaded form my wordpress CMS, why is SEOmoz not picking this meta description up?
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Edward
The Moz software is correct (per my comment below). Your current tag is the facebook open graph description. Use the Yoast SEO plugin to add meta descriptions to your pages.
-Dan
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Hi Edward
The tag you're seeing is the facebook open graph description. This is only for facebook and not the same as a regular meta description for search engines.
I would suggest installing the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin, which will add meta descriptions to your site for you.
Some WordPress SEO basics here in my article.
-Dan
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Hi Edward,
Looking at your source, I don't see what you mention on line 94, I don't actually see any kind of meta description tag, so that is certainly something you should address.
What Mike suggests appears correct (I have never actually tested combining open graph and meta description tags). That being said, I think your issue is more a question of setup.
Assuming that the plugin you are using allows setup of both the meta description tag and the open graph description then just use them both. Doubling up is fine although they are two different things really, meta description mainly used in serp results, og tags when you share the url on facebook so there might be times you would like them to be slightly different anyway.
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Thanks Mike, I'm still unclear whether this is an issue with the way SEOmoz analyse my site and whether what I currently have will still be fine for search engine purposes or if it's something I need to get sorted?
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From what I understand, when combining open graph protocol and meta description it needs to look like
name="description" property="og:description" content="My meta description copy."/>
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