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Greetings from New Zealand.
We’re getting to grips with Rank Math and just did a site scan in Bing. It reported every post and page to have an error; ERROR : Meta Description tag missing. Bing Webmaster Tools says to:
Add a description to the <head> section of the page source: <meta name=’description’ content=’Descriptive, keyword-rich text that talks about the page content goes here.’>.
I have inspected my posts and the Édit Snippet and notice that the Title, Permalink and Desription are all populated. My website is: https://buildreview.org
Can you please let me know what we are doing wrong please?
Many thanks.
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Hello,
From the screenshot you shared the missing meta descriptions are from the archive pages. Most of them are tag archives and one of them is a tag archive.
While this type of page is an archive page that is dynamically created and the metas can’t be edited individually, Rank Math has provided a global setting for its meta which you can edit in Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Post: Tags or Authors. For the
Tag Archive Descriptions, you can use a static text or preferably a variable like%term_description%, while for theAuthor Archive Description, similarly, you can choose to use a static text or a variable such as %user_description%.
Let us know how this goes. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thank you.
Hello,
Apologies for the confusion.
We’ve checked your tag pages, and indeed they don’t have meta description in the source code.
This happens when you didn’t put any description upon editing/creating your tags
To fix this, you may need to insert a description in that box, and Rank Math will use that description to show in the meta description tag.
Hope that helps.
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