SEO - YOAST - Meta Description template for X / Pro

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#1

Hi there,

I’m using the pro theme on my site. Thing is, I’m trying to mass add meta descriptions but most of them seem empty.
(screenshot attached: https://www.dropbox.com/s/01rivr2dau4192d/Screenshot%202019-04-25%2017.49.05.png?dl=0)

Is there an easy way for Yoast to understand cornerstone content? I just want it to either populate it by a template or just to add something to all pages manually.

Could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

#2

Hello @Pbalazs89,

Please refer to this thread:

Regards.

#3

Hi there,

Thanks for the tip.
Here’s what I did:

  1. Added the code snippet to functions.php in my child theme.
  2. Went to yoast settings, and added the %%excerpt%% variable to the meta description section.
  3. Performed a new crawl on the site to see if meta descriptions are populated now with page content.

It did not work. Any idea what I did wrong in these steps? Lot of pages so I would like to avoid going through them one by one. Or am I wrong in assuming that there’s a way to automate this? As the last post by Rad suggested that I think.

Thanks!

#4

Hello @Pbalazs89,

If you have used Pro Editor in creating the pages and posts, you will need to edit each of the pages/posts and insert manual excerpts because Yoast SEO might not detect the contents of the page/post. Manual Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used with Yoast SEO plugin. Learn more about manual excerpts.

Please let us know how it goes.

#5

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