Wordpress - Missing Meta Description and Title Elements Too Short
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I have a wordpress site. When SeoMoz runs the crawl, my report shows 0 errors, but a lot of warnings in two areas: Missing Meta Description and Title Element Too Short.
The only thing is, the URL's it shows under both of these categories look like this:
http://www.millerhypnosisatlanta.com/author/Michael/page/4/
http://www.millerhypnosisatlanta.com/category/anxiety-panic/
http://www.millerhypnosisatlanta.com/tag/goals/
These are tags, categories, and author pages.
How do I hide these from being seen by SeoMoz and Google? I mean I should do that right? Because there is no way I can add a description to these pages, or extend the title - right?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Thanks Greg! I appreciate it! I will see what happens with the next crawl.
Michael
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Hi Michael,
I would recommend installing the Wordpress SEO plugin from Yoast first - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/
& then take a read of his Wordpress SEO guide, in particular this section relating to categories, tags and author pages - http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#advancedseo
Hope that helps! Greg
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