WordPress Meta Name Description Not Showing Up!: Wordpress, Meta, Meta Name, SEO

by: DzynitPosted on 2009-10-27 at 06:58:56ID: 25672468

Two things - first view the source of a couple of pages on your site and see if the description meta tag is seen there.

Second - if you see them in the source code, how long are you waiting in between to check the search listings? Are you giving it enough time to update?

by: dakeysPosted on 2009-10-27 at 07:04:56ID: 25672532

In regards to your 1st answer - I put the information inside the AllinOneSEO Pack plugin, I think this takes the place of doing it manually.

2nd Reponse: I originally waited about 1 week, and no information shows up, then yesterday, I removed my theme and left the plain blue one to see if there was a problem with the theme i was using.

by: DzynitPosted on 2009-10-27 at 07:55:45ID: 25673079

Yes, that's correct - the all in one seo will auto create your metas from the title and content area of your posts and pages. With the exception of the home / frontpage - that page information is set right on the all in one seo admin page.

Can you please turn back on the theme that you want to be using and then provide both the link to your site and attach the header.php file code from that theme? That way I can take a look and see if the all in one is actually doing it's job. And if not, it will narrow down the possible reasons that it would be failing.

I've rarely come across conflicts for the all in one plugin, but using it with a couple other meta plugins can cause issues of duplicated metas where the first one seen by the search engines would be blank. But let's take a look and see if the problem is quick to spot.

by: dakeysPosted on 2009-10-27 at 08:58:41ID: 25673949

Ok, below is my link and I also put back the theme that I originally had.
http://beginningguitarlessonsinfo.com/

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
<title><?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo('name'); } elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo ' - ' ; bloginfo('name'); }
 elseif (is_single() ) { single_post_title(); }
 elseif (is_page() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo ': '; single_post_title(); }
 else { wp_title('',true); } ?></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/script.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/style.ie6.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php printf(__('%s RSS Feed', 'kubrick'), get_bloginfo('name')); ?>" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php printf(__('%s Atom Feed', 'kubrick'), get_bloginfo('name')); ?>" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" /> 
 
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<div class="PageBackgroundSimpleGradient">
</div>
<div class="Main">
<div class="Sheet">
    <div class="Sheet-tl"></div>
    <div class="Sheet-tr"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-bl"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-br"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-tc"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-bc"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-cl"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-cr"><div></div></div>
    <div class="Sheet-cc"></div>
    <div class="Sheet-body">
<div class="Header">
    <div class="Header-png"></div>
    <div class="Header-jpeg"></div>
<div class="logo">
    <h1 id="name-text" class="logo-name">
        <a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
    <div id="slogan-text" class="logo-text">
        <?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
</div>
 
</div>
<div class="nav">
    <ul class="artmenu">
        <?php art_menu_items(); ?>
    </ul>
    <div class="l">
    </div>
    <div class="r">
        <div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

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by: DzynitPosted on 2009-10-27 at 09:52:48ID: 25674665

it's definitely working and there isn't any interference going on. I would have to make the assumption that the search engines just need time to update.

Are you using the google xml sitemap plugin? If you're using something like that, you may need to run the manual rebuild in your wp-admin. That could be what is taking so long for the update to occur at the google search.

To save time and index faster, google goes by the latest xml of the site. Posts normally auto update and notify search engines, where pages do not - which would definitely explain why the new metas aren't showing.

Below is the code from your site's source - the all in one is adding the information. (The title is showing in the source too, just wasn't close to the others to copy in.)

<!-- All in One SEO Pack 1.6.7 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design[361,392] -->
<meta name="description" content="My first attempt at learning the guitar was horrible. So to help your future guitar playing, I'm providing some helpful guitar tips which I had to learn the hard way." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Beginning Guitar Lessons,guitar lessons for beginners,electric guitar lessons online" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://beginningguitarlessonsinfo.com/" />
<!-- /all in one seo pack -->

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by: dakeysPosted on 2009-10-27 at 20:32:22ID: 31646451

Thx for taking the time out to look through the header.php code. I will monitor the site for another week and see how it looks then.

Thanks Again

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