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google says meta description are too short
September 8, 2009
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Hello !

I'm using All in One SEO in my wordpress blog : robotbuzz.fr and I'm quit happy with it. But in google webmaster tool it warms me that the meta description of all my pages is too short…. After checking it, the size of description is very variable but never really long, between 50 and 160 characters… How can I fix its size ? Is it a normal behaviour of AISEO ?

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September 8, 2009
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the descriptions are made automatically by the plugin…

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September 9, 2009
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WordPress Professional said:

If All in One SEO Pack is automatically generating your descriptions, it takes the first 160 characters from the content of the page/post.


Well no… like I told it doesn't seem to be the case for me… it is moslty around 100 characters… :( any idea of the problem origin ?

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September 9, 2009
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I usually don't fill the description box, I let AISEO do the job, so it comes from the content of the post…

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I don't speak the language of your blog, but I looked through a number of your pages and none of the descriptions were in the content as far as I could see.


It is in french ;) Which pages did you check out ? Because I just checked again and everytime the descriptions are the beginning of each article… and it match the description that google see. How do you do yourself ??

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September 9, 2009
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Yeah, I made a recount by hand, it's between 150 and 160 characters… Seems to work fine on the pages. Sorry for that…Embarassed

It does take the good amount of characters but then why google says the contrary ? and see less characters…? any idea for that ?

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September 9, 2009
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yes, 268 pages… so half of my post pages and all the pages related to tag (which contains only the short wordpress blog description, a way to change that ?)….

Random exemples of post pages :

MyDeskFriend est un petit robot pingouin relié sans fil à l’ordinateur et qui synchronise son é
‎/2009/07/mydeskfriend-petit-robot-facebook-pour-geek-linuxien/‎
Grande nouvelle !! RobotBuzz.co.cc devient RobotBuzz.FR !! et le site passe chez un hébergeur pro :
‎/2009/07/nom-de-domaine-et-nouvel-hebergeur/‎
Pour ceux qui n'ont pas eu la chance de le voir en direct via le satellite, voilà le passage où Da
‎/2009/07/optimus-prime-prouve-que-les-robots-sont-plus-cool-que-les-humains/‎
Un projet européen vise le développement de robots bâtisseurs de très petites tailles qui pourra
‎/2009/07/projet-i-swarm-les-robots-fourmis-de-la-planete-mars/‎
Plus de 200 lycéens et étudiants en BTS de la région de Toulouse ont travaillé pendant deux ans
‎/2009/07/projet-scolaire-cloner-le-rover-martien-de-la-nasa/‎

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Why ?

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September 9, 2009
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OK I guess it's gg who's bugging.

Thanks a lot for your help !

Keep on with the good work !

October 11, 2009
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It happened in only one of the blog posts for me. I wrote a custom description (that comes while editing the blog post as an SEO option). Then I waited for a few days for Google to check it. Now, everything looks good as per Google. I'm sure this situation arised because the entire post doesn't go beyond 100 words (it was a very short post).

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