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Business

Posted by Dawn Craig
Dawn Craig
159 Points

SEO Meta description

I wanted to know what I should I do for meta description... I can't do a unique one for each because several of mine are the same type of item just dyed differently. Would it be better to just leave that part blank then?

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

You should probably try for a unique description for each category or type of item on your site. Then apply an 

<link rel="canonical" href = "yourlinkhere.html">

canonical tag to let Google and other search engines know it should prioritise that page for indexing. If you have a canonical link, Google shouldn't penalise you for duplicate content.