METADATA DESCRIPTION
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Hi All
I have a metadata issue. My site crawl is coming back with missing descriptions, but all of the pages look like having descriptions
<meta property="og:description" content="תפריט BBB כיכר רבין" />
Has anyone ever saw a similar problem and have an idea of what is wrong?
Thanks
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Hi,
The meta description is very important for SEO. It sums up your page content. Your page will receive more clicks with this meta tag.
If you use WordPress, you should install SEO plugins like Yoast to add and manage meta descriptions.
Title and meta description tags are the best places to add important keywords.
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That specific meta data tag is for Facebook. There's a good chance if that issue is showing in your audit then you may not have a meta description present.
You can always manually look at the source code for this tag: "<meta name="description".
I wouldn't stress about it too much updating meta descriptions is usually low priority item.
Best of luck!
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