Hello,
We apologize for the inconvenience you’re experiencing with duplicate meta descriptions on your website. We understand that it can be challenging to identify the cause of this issue, especially if you’re not familiar with HTML.
When switching from Yoast to Rank Math, it’s possible that some settings or meta tags might have been carried over, potentially causing conflicts. However, to resolve this issue, we recommend following these steps:
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Install the Health Check and Troubleshooting plugin by heading over to WordPress Dashboard → Plugins → Add New.
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After installing the plugin, enable Troubleshooting Mode by navigating to Tools → Site Health → Troubleshooting and clicking Enable Troubleshooting Mode.
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Then, navigate to Plugins → Installed Plugins and click Enable while troubleshooting under Rank Math SEO and Rank Math SEO PRO.
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Finally, activate your theme from Appearance → Themes and check if the theme is adding duplicate meta tags. If your theme isn’t responsible, then enable your plugins one by one until you find the plugin causing the issue.
By following these steps, you can identify the plugin or theme responsible for the duplicate meta tags and take appropriate action to resolve the issue.
If you encounter any difficulties during this process, please feel free to assign this ticket to a human agent using the available buttons, and we’ll be more than happy to assist you further.
Thank you for reaching out to us, and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.
Best regards.
Sources:
How to Fix Duplicate Meta Tags » Rank Math
How to Fix the “No Keywords Found in the Page Title” Test in Rank Math » Rank Math
Google Shows A Different Meta Title/Description For My Site » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.
Are you saying your website has multiple meta-description tags? i.e. <meta name="description"? We checked your website page source and we could only find one meta description tag, here’s a screenshot:
If you are referring to something else, please let us know the issue so we can help investigate it.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
My tool, Seobility, indicates that multiple meta descriptions are being used for all pages. Additionally, Google is not displaying the meta descriptions provided by RankMath in the search results
Hello,
Thank you for your patience.
We’ve checked the affected URLs, and indeed they have multiple meta description and opengraph tags
In this case, assuming you are using the latest version of all the plugins and the themes (please update if not yet), the duplicate meta tags could be added by one of your plugins or active theme.
To determine that, please follow this troubleshooting guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/
Here is a video you can follow as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcIWRhcUP2c
Only the site admin would know and your users won’t be affected by this troubleshooting.
Let us know how this goes.
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
