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What is a meta description in Yoast?
The meta description is a snippet of up to about 155 characters – a tag in HTML – which summarizes a page’s content. Search engines show it in search results mostly when the searched-for phrase is within the description. So optimizing it is crucial for on-page SEO.
What is the SEO title in Yoast?
By default, Yoast SEO will generate your homepage SEO title by displaying the Site title, the name of the page, a separator and the tagline. But you might want to do something completely different. On the yoast.com homepage we have our mission, then a separator, then our brand name as the SEO title.
How to edit Seo title and meta description of Yoast?
Note: if you have a static page as your homepage, you won’t be able to edit the SEO title and meta description under the Homepage heading. Instead, you can edit the SEO and meta description on the static page itself, using the Yoast SEO metabox. The message will link you through to it, as the image below shows.
How to use variables in Yoast SEO plugin?
The Yoast SEO plugin makes these processes easier for you! In Yoast SEO, you can use variables to set templates for your SEO titles and meta descriptions. After setting a template, the plugin will generate an SEO title and a meta description following that template for each of your posts and pages!
Metadata refers to both your page title (SEO title) AND themeta description (sometimes called meta tag) which describes the post or page in more detail. Creating data that’s specifically for search engines is especially good for SEO because, when done right, it announces to searchers that OUR site has what they’re looking for.
Where do you find meta description in Yoast?
In Yoast, the metadata section is at the bottom of your post. It’s the section labeled “snippet preview”. So, if you’d like to create a specific post snippet or SEO title for Google to use, this is where you’d go to type that in. Google has no official stance on how long or short your meta description has to be.