We have an All Products page ( https://illuminatelabs.org/collections/all ) which doesn’t offer the opportunity in the Shopify backend to add a meta description. Is there a way to do this manually?

@IlluminateLabs I can be wrong, though as far as I am aware the pro of metafield is being able to setup unique values per pages. So, say you have the collections “dogs” and “cats”. With metafields you can customize the value individually depending on the collection: you may have the text “dogs are…

I appreciate your response but it’s not super helpful. I’m asking how to set a meta description for one page and your response says “you should hard-code a metafield in Shopify”. Yes, that’s what I’m inquiring how to do. This is a one-off case and we won’t need this functionality outside of this on…

You can use the code: {{ product.metafields.global.description_tag }} It will show metafields description: https://i.imgur.com/HWrED3f.png Hope it helps!

@LitExtension thanks for your response. Can you specify how this code would be used? I don’t see examples in my existing code with this format so I’m unsure how to specify the meta description. As an example, if I wanted the meta-description to be “All Illuminate Labs products available for sale”, …

You really confused me, what are you trying to add? “meta description”: What does it mean, do you want to add it at the collection page or the product page? Will it show the same for all or customize for each. Please send me a screenshot, I will check it.

@LitExtension check this out for a more succinct explanation of why this is important than I can provide: https://www.wordstream.com/meta-description I’m just trying to add it for the All Products page I referenced above. I already have meta descriptions for all individual products pages. The descr…

You can follow this tutorial to find the relevant seo metafields.

How to Set Meta Description for All Products (Collections List) Page?

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The purpose of a meta description is to provide information to search engine results pages (and their users) about the contents of the page.

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How to Set Meta Description for All Products (Collections List) Page?

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