How do I add meta description in Yoast SEO?
Changing the SEO Titles and Meta Descriptions for Archives
- Login to your WordPress site.
- Navigate to the Yoast SEO Plugin.
- Click on “Search Appearance” on the left side of the menu.
- Navigate to Archives along the top of the page.
- Change the “SEO title” and “Meta description”
How do I add meta tags to WordPress Yoast?
Click on Edit, and then scroll to the bottom of the screen where the Yoast SEO section is located: Enter your primary keyword into the Focus Keyphrase section. Then, click on the Edit Snippet button to enter your meta description.
Where to put meta descriptions and excerpts in Yoast?
“Well, let’s start with the first thing. It’s probably easier to do it the other way around. If you put the description that you want in the excerpt field, and then in the back end, in the Search appearance section [used to be the Yoast SEO Titles & Meta section], you can use the excerpt shortcode for meta descriptions.
How do you write a meta description on WordPress?
If you’re on WordPress and using Yoast SEO, adding a meta description is easy as pie. Firstly, you can write it in the Google preview section of Yoast SEO. But, Yoast SEO also gives you feedback on it in the SEO analysis. The plugin checks two things, the meta description length and whether you’ve used your focus keyphrase in it.
What happens if your meta description is the same?
If your meta description is the same as those for other pages, the user experience in Google will be hampered. Although page titles might vary, all pages will appear to be the same because all the descriptions are the same.
How many characters in a Google meta description?
Every now and then, Google changes the length. Nowadays, you’ll mostly see meta descriptions of up to 155 characters, with some outliers of 300 characters. At least, try to get crucial information in the first 155 characters of your meta description.