Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with your SEO meta descriptions. To ensure that your meta descriptions are limited to 160 characters or 920 pixels, you can use Rank Math’s built-in features.
Rank Math provides a length bar and pixel measurement to help you create meta descriptions of the perfect length. Here’s how you can do it:
- Edit Your Post/Page: Go to the post or page you want to edit.
- Click on Edit Snippet: In the Rank Math SEO section, click on the Edit Snippet button.
- Add Your Meta Description: Write your meta description in the provided field. Rank Math will show you a length bar indicating how many characters you have used and whether you are within the optimal range.
- Check Pixel Measurement: Ensure that your description does not exceed 920 pixels, as shown in the pixel measurement feature.
By following these steps, you can easily shorten your meta descriptions for all articles to meet the recommended limits. If you have any further questions or need assistance, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you.
Thank you for raising this concern!
Sources:
What is the Ideal Meta Description Length? » Rank Math
Hello,
Please use the following code instead to limit the descriptions for your article posts:
https://pastebin.com/qSPPiRiD
Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any other questions.
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
I added it to function.php but nothing happened.
Should I have added it differently?
Should I delete the data from Rank math?
Or how?
Thank you.
Regards
Damian
Hello,
Please note that the code we shared will only affect the frontend. Meaning, you won’t be able to see the updated preview of the description in the editor but it should show the correct format on the frontend. You may check the post’s meta description by submitting it here: https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/
However, if the issue persists, please share the affected post URL here so we can take a closer look.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
I think it’s cropping up.
But I have one more small problem.
I have set up the meta description filling like this: https://ibb.co/ysG1Gf4
Well in some posts like this:
Is the problem that there are only a few words in the first paragraph and it only takes those?
How to include more text?
Thank you very much.
Damian
Hello,
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress login in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
The excerpt is generated from the paragraph that contains the focus keyword. The content of the post is mostly lists, and there is no long enough paragraph for our plugin to create the excerpt. That’s why it uses only a few words in the first paragraph. If you want to use the autogenerated description, you must add more content to the post.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Thank you, problem solved.
🙂
Hello,
Glad that helped.
Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.
We are here to help.
Thank you.
Hello,
1) Is there a code that would shorten the SEO Title length to the required 60/60 words or (580px/580px).
The code did the same thing as the code for the meta description above but this time for the SEO title.
2)
Is it possible to somehow remove the publishing and actualization time from the rank math code.
<meta property=”og:updated_time” content=”2024-09-15T19:51:21+01:00″ />
Is that even necessary there?
Since I have a lot of exported content and I have 9000 recipes published in one day due to export.
And I’m afraid google won’t take it as something of quality. Rather as generated content. So that’s why I should probably remove the timestamp.
3) I set 5 stars in schemas for my recipes.
But I don’t see anything for your parser.
URL:
https://chutnavareska.sk/ovsene-vlocky-recepty-na-chudnutie/
Your analyzer:
https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/
Thank you very much.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Hello,
1. You can use a modification of the previous code we shared for the description for the title like so: https://pastebin.com/MqtChwNN
2. If you want to remove all the dates from the pages you can follow the steps here: https://rankmath.com/kb/remove-dates-from-search/
That tutorial includes sections to remove the date from every single place where our plugin adds it so you can add all filters to remove all the dates or just the OpenGraph specific dates.
3. The Recipe Schema on that page does indeed contain the star ratings but you are testing that with a meta-analyzer. To test the Schema you need to use the following validator: https://validator.schema.org/
That will show you all the Schema that is on the page and all the data that is being sent to Google but it won’t show a preview of what that would look like on SERPs.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
