I have posted about this before, but never really got an answer. Is there a way to create separate titles and meta descriptions for each blog page. If not, any idea on how much effect this truly has SEO. See screenshot from semrush below:
Hello @livninctry,
Thanks for asking. 
If you would like to have separate meta description and other meta informations for blog posts and pages, I suggest you to install Yoast SEO plugin.
To get started you can take a look at following article.
Thanks.
I do have yoast installed and find it very easy to change SEO title and meta descriptions for all my posts and pages, but it has no effect on the main blog page title and meta data as the blog grows from one page to multiple pages based on the amount of content added. I currently have three pages in my blog and all of them have the same title and meta data and I see no way of editing that to make the pages unique. I am not sure that this is even a big deal when it comes to SEO, but Semrush seems to think so… I just thought I would see if I had the option available to editing these data points.
Brian
Hi Brian,
Thank you for writing in, please navigate to X > Theme Options > Social and turn off the Open Graph
Then clear all your caching features (plugin, server-side, CDN, and browser’s cache) so that the changes will take effect immediately.
Hope it helps,
Cheers!
They were off to begin with. Not sure what effect that would have on my original inquiry.
Brian
Hi Brian,
Can you provide us the exact url of the page where we can see the issue.
For the mean time, please review the link below
Hope that helps
Here is the link to our blog:
This is the only “page” for the blog and I am able to edit the Title and the Meta Description using yoast… However, as we continue to post more “posts” the page title and meta description are replicated for each page of the blog with no way to edit this information… Once again I think this is a minor issue, maybe I should say hope this is a minor issue, but curious if I can edit the Title and meta description for the subsequent pages that are created in the blog as we add more content?
Brian
Hey Brian,
Before I answer your question, I’d first like to clarify that X uses the wp_title WordPress function. Below is the specific code that outputs the title tag. It can be found in framework\views\global_meta.php
<title><?php wp_title( '' ); ?></title>
If you visit the wp_title link, you will see there that it will get the Page or Post Title by default and also stated in there that there is a SEO benefit if you include the blog title (taken from Settings > General and not your blog page’s title).
Now, what SEO plugins does is they can filter or alter the title tag output by using wp_title WordPress hook. At this point, you now see that the functionality is already in the hands of the SEO plugin and not the theme.
Configuration should be done in the SEO plugin. It is probable that you might have missed a setting that caused the duplicate title tags analysis of your SEMRush.
The ultimate test to see if the theme is causing the issue though is to switch to the X parent theme and seeing if the issue persists. If it does, you might have a custom function in your child theme that is causing the issue.
If the issue does persists, switch to the default WordPress theme. If it’s not fixed, the issue could be in your SEO plugin’s configuration or bug.
If it’s fixed, it would be helpful if you could provide the 3 URLs with issue in your screenshot and WordPress Admin access so we could see your actual setup and so we could replicate it on our end to see if there’s a bug in the theme.
Thanks.
Thanks for the reply. Here are the three screenshots from the 3 pages of my blog right now:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
As you can see the three pages have different URL’s put have the exact same SEO Title and meta description and there is no way that I see to edit this information for each page of the blog as it is created. I feel this has to do with how the theme creates additional pages for the blog as it needs to to accommodate more posts and has nothing to do with yoast.
Brian
Howdy @livninctry!
Thanks for writing in! I logged into your site and took a look around and thought I’d help to give you some pointers on what you can do to get thigns better setup. I made one small adjustment to your Blog’s <title> tag within Yoast’s options, but you can of course adjust this if you want to your desired results.
If you go to the SEO menu item in the WordPress admin for Yoast, you’ll see a submenu item labeled Search Appearance. Clicking that link will take you to this page:
This is where you can go through and edit all sorts of things regarding how your meta information will be setup for various post types, pages, et cetera. However, notice the Homepage and Front page title that has a couple sentences with links below. Clicking the link in the second sentence takes you to your blog page’s options, where you can adjust things within the page meta options:
At the bottom of the Snippet Preview section is a button labeled Edit Snippet, which when clicked will reveal the following:
Notice how we can update the page’s SEO title and Meta description right here. While we can update the title, we can’t just put in a hardcoded page number because this would show up the same on every page, so we need to take advantage of Yoast’s snippet variables. Unfortunately, when clicking on the Insert snippet variable button for the SEO title, there does not appear to be any option for paged output (which seems quite odd considering the application). After a little digging, I found this page on Yoast’s site:
If you go down to the Advanced Variables section you’ll see an option labeled Page number with the code of %%page%% next to it. I took this back to your page and inserted this within the SEO title and it now looks like this:
After reviewing the blog pages on your site, the first one will show like normal, but the 2nd and 3rd have the following titles:
- Current Happenings in Home Inspections - Page 2 of 3 - MTS Inspections Blog
- Current Happenings in Home Inspections - Page 3 of 3 - MTS Inspections Blog
So this should give you the desired results you’re looking for with your title. You can repeat this for your description, or use more snippets as you desire to customize it further. Hopefully this helps to point you in the right direction for managing these options going forward.
Cheers!
A MILLION thank you’s…
Brian
You’re most welcome Brian!
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