Blog entries meta description & Google indexing problem

[Micronichos]

Hello, I have a problem with the blog entries meta description, they have only the title of the post and title of the blog and don't have for example the first 50 characters from the blog entry.

The result is duplicate content and Google not indexing all blog entries from my users, it's really a problem for me since my users posts ads and I need most visibilty from crawlers.

How can I add the first 50 chars from the blog entry to meta description of that blog entry?

Thank you in advance.

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In headinclude I add blog.message variable but nothing is added to description, do you know what is the problem?

<meta name="description" content="{vb:raw vboptions.description} {vb:raw blog.message}" />

gives the same result as:

<meta name="description" content="{vb:raw vboptions.description} " />

[ChopSuey]

<meta name="description" content="{vb:raw vboptions.description} " />

Because that's in there, just blog.message should be there.

[Micronichos]

Thanks for the reply but it doesn't work, blog.message seems empty:

<meta name="description" content="{vb:raw vboptions.description} {vb:raw blog.message}" />

gives the same result as:

<meta name="description" content="{vb:raw vboptions.description}" />

I'm running vBulletin 4.0.4

[ChopSuey]

Revert your headinclude template.

[Micronichos]

I have reverted it, changed vboptions.description to blog.message and it results in a meta description with no content. Anyway I have not made any other changes to templates.

Maybe a 4.0.4 bug ?

[ChopSuey]

Nope it should be fine with the default template.

[Micronichos]

I'm using the default template and it doesn't work.

[ChopSuey]

Check vB.com ask over there.

[Micronichos]

From vBulletin official support: Its not a bug, its likely that variable is not available where you're trying to use it.

Any alternative to buy vBseo? I prefer to not install third-party programs to something as simple as that :S

[ChopSuey]

Default template should work fine! Takes a few days to get indexed doesn't it? How can you check so quickly?

[Micronichos]

I check html for blog entries. The meta description has the blog entry title and blog owned nickname, it's very short and Google takes the notice_1_html text instead of the body of the entry.

That results in Google not indexing all blog entries.

[ChopSuey]

I just Googled my forums blog entries. site:forum.vbdiscussions.com/blog.php I searched that see no dupe content at all.

[Micronichos]

Hello.

Many pages are not indexed due to having the same meta description. Also, meta description should have some content from the entry and be different in every page of the website. Groups & Album pages also have the default meta description. It would be much better if each page's meta description would have its own meta description.

[ChopSuey]

Get help on vB.com they have a Blog section.