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  • October 2, 2016 at 10:18 pm #1200010
    liz80y
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    Hi,

    Every time i share a link from my website (e.g. promote a blog post on facebook or instagram) there is always a description underneath which happens to be the wording of my call to action subscription box.

    I was wondering how i could remove this so it never appears when i link from my site or even if i could change it?

    I have attached an image to show you what i mean.

    Thanks 🙂

    October 2, 2016 at 10:19 pm #1200013
    liz80y
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    October 2, 2016 at 11:15 pm #1200047
    Rupok
    Member

    Hi there,

    That’s an usual feature of sharing on social media and they will pull the text from your content. If you use “Excerpt” then it will be used otherwise some text from your content will be pulled. So you can’t really remove that if your page contains any text but you can control this using the “Excerpts”.

    Hope this makes sense.

    October 5, 2016 at 6:55 am #1203286
    liz80y
    Participant

    Thanks,

    So where do i find the ‘Excerpts’? It is a bo i have ticked in wordpress or is it something i have clicked for each individual social media channel?

    🙂

    October 5, 2016 at 8:00 am #1203364
    Thai
    Moderator

    Hi There,

    You can change the facebook description in the SEO Yoast settings:

    http://i.imgur.com/kCRpdaP.png

    Hope it helps 🙂

    October 13, 2016 at 4:19 am #1214359
    liz80y
    Participant

    Hi there,

    I have searched and searched and can’t find the page you suggested anywhere. Can you tell me where in Yoast i can find this?

    Thanks, 🙂

    October 13, 2016 at 6:54 am #1214505
    Paul R
    Moderator

    Hi,

    It’s on edit page, you have to scroll down to be able to see it.

    http://screencast.com/t/tqFWu7SZ

    Thanks

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