Re: Is it possible to add a meta description for tag blogs urls (for example /blog/tagged/pearls)?

Is it possible to add a meta description for tag blogs urls (for example /blog/tagged/pearls)?

j_adv21
Shopify Partner
14 0 1

Hi,

 

I'm wondering if it is possible to add a meta description for tag blogs urls (for example /blog/tagged/pearls)?

 

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Elias
Shopify Staff
3076 300 542

Hi, @j_adv21.

 

Thank you for reaching out and posting this question!

 

You can add meta descriptions to your storefront/homepage as well as blogs and other pages by adding keywords for the SEO to your Shopify store. For the homepage, you can simply add the meta description under 'Online store > Preferences > Title and meta description.'

 

Meta Description for Homepage:

 

22-33-85581-6406

 

For all other pages, such as blog posts, you can edit the meta description under the Search engine listing preview. Simply click Edit website SEO and you can add meta description for each individual blog post or page.

 

Meta Description for Blog Posts, Pages, Collections, & Products:

 

22-35-92715-8660

 

I'd love to hear more about how you're using meta descriptions on your store! If you'd like to learn more about search engine optimization (SEO), then I'd also recommend taking a look at Moz: The Beginner's Guide to SEO!

 

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tylerhadx
Visitor
1 0 1

This doesn't answser the question, we can add the title and descriptions at those posts or on products etc. But where they specifically asked for the page of tagged keyword. This is also something that would be nice for applied filters. For Example if we had a collection of shoes, and if you filter by velcro vs string, each of those pages would share the same description and title, instead of us overriding each tag/product type.

 

BFWebTeam
Tourist
10 0 16

Though Shopify thankfully allows us to edit the vast majority of meta descriptions on our sites, we don't seem to be able to edit the description of blog tag filter pages. Shopify simply reuses the blog's overall description for every tag filter endpoint. I can't say for sure how much Google or Bing's crawlers care that every single endpoint has a unique meta description, but if any two are identical then Semrush considers it an error and counts it towards the site's total error count.

 

This is personally an issue for me, as my job performance is judged by the number of SEO errors and notices present on our site. Unless there is a setting I have overlooked, I have no way to clear these errors in the current version of Shopify.

 

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Ideally, we would have the ability to write custom meta descriptions for each blog tag filter endpoint. However, since this issue pertains only to the uniqueness of the descriptions, it would also be perfectly acceptable if Shopify inserted the name of the blog tag in the generated meta description. This would ensure that each page naturally possesses a unique description.

CélinePo
Tourist
7 0 1

Hey BFWebTeam,

 

I have the same problem right now with Sitechecker...

It seems that having same tags on differents articles of my blog generates critical issues... Fortunatelly it's not the same on Products page ?!

Did you find solution ?

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BFWebTeam
Tourist
10 0 16

I have a workaround, but it requires manually editing the theme's base liquid file:

 

 

{% if page_description %}
  <meta name="description" content="{{ page_description | escape }}{% if canonical_url contains "tagged" %} Tagged: {{ canonical_url | split: "/" | last }}{% endif %}">
{% endif %}

 

 

This is only a temporary solution for my team though; once we update to our new OS 2.0 theme, we're aiming to keep the theme unmodified so that we can qualify for theme updates. I'm still not aware of a simpler solution, and I'm worried that our site is going to have these permanent SEO errors that we can't fix without creating a child theme.

 

I was hoping that @Elias would have more insight about whether there is some hidden or planned section of the site editor that would allow us to edit meta descriptions for these pages, or whether Shopify has plans to generate unique blog tag descriptions as I've done manually with my Liquid script above.

lrfielding
Tourist
3 0 1

@Elias any updates here? If it is not possible to add a unique page title, meta description (and H1 ideally) can you share how to set these blog tag URLs to noindex?

ex: https://www.heathrilesbbq.com/blogs/favorite-recipes/tagged/sides

ex: https://www.heathrilesbbq.com/blogs/favorite-recipes/tagged/fish-and-seafood

https://www.heathrilesbbq.com/blogs/favorite-recipes/tagged/drinks-desserts

 

Thanks in advance.