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Topic summary

Issue: Ahrefs flagged multiple meta descriptions across several pages, despite only seeing one meta description in theme.liquid.

Investigation: The poster checked various templates (product.json, collection.json, page.json) and wondered if installed apps were causing duplicates. Screenshots showed Ahrefs’ report and theme code.

Advice: Inspect snippets/social-meta-tags.liquid for another meta description, or temporarily remove the existing tag in theme.liquid. Apps and overall code likely not the cause.

Outcome: A duplicate tag was found in snippets/social-meta-tags.liquid:

Removing it left a single meta description per page, resolving the issue.

Status: Resolved. Root cause was a duplicate meta description generated by the social meta tags snippet, not by apps.

Notes: Meta description is the HTML tag providing a page summary for search engines. Images were illustrative (Ahrefs and code) but not essential to apply the fix.

Summarized with AI on December 14. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi there !

I am working on approving my SEO. Using Ahrefs, it shows me that for numerous pages, I have multiple metadata descriptions (below, a screenshot of one website page).

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However, in my theme.liquid, I have only one line for metadescription :

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I have checked a lot of code files, like product.json, collection.json, page.json

There is not another code line asking to show another metadata description.

My question is : do you know where the problem could come from ?

Another question : here below, you can see all my apps on my website. Do you think one of them could cause such a problem ?

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Many thanks in advance for your help !

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Hello @Fudji ,

Apps and code both looks fine.

Once try to check in file snippets → social-meta-tags.liquid

or once try to remove the existing description meta tag which is available in the theme.liquid

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Indeed !

I went to social-meta-tags.liquid, and deleted this line :

Then updated, and refreshed one page that was showing 2 metadata description, it now shows only one !

Many thanks for your help !

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