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    • DaniellaSerquen
      DaniellaSerquen last edited by

      So I have more than 1.4K Meta Data Issues that states that there is "Missing Description" together with "Missing or invalid H1" and I have spent so many hours trying to figure this out, still no luck..

      The problem seems to be to add a description in a specific tag, for example:

      https://www.troyhoffman.com/blog/tag/courage

      The platform I use (Squarespace) doesn't allow me to add a description to e specific tag.

      Any ideas on how I can fix this problems?

      5TBfuDj

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      • paints-n-design
        paints-n-design last edited by

        Description is empty and H1 missing. You could add an H1 to Tag in the Template (not sure if possible for squarespace) wich somehow says the name of the tag and to define it more, Articles marked up with <nameoftag>.  Or use the Text in Header for your H1.  If you cant add descriptions, you cant do anything here. But imho, you dont need to add H1 or MD here.</nameoftag>

        All you would achieve is , you will not see the issues again. But I am really not sure if you should  index these Tags. It allways depends how much different categories and tags are and how much stuff is in it.  How unique and usefull they are. But in most cases it is better to noindex these . They are oftentimes thin (your example to links with image and excerpt) and duplicate (your example, bet thats 100% exists elsewhere - more than one time) content.  Maybe you can do that.

        These Tags will never rank for any term, so why optimize them?  Not worth the work. The question is: is it useful to have them? And: is it useful to have them indexed? Is a Visitor using these pages? Are they needed for anything?

        BTW - Some of your Alt-Attributes are toooo long - I mean, they should describe the image and you sometimes did it how it should be. But in some image-alt's are dont know 200 words?

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