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    • seanginnaw
      seanginnaw @moon-boots last edited by

      Apologies, my mistake.

      The Mozbar picks up your meta descriptions correctly so I don't know what's going on. Perhaps flag this question as 'Moz Support' and see what the tech guys say?

      Sean

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      • moon-boots
        moon-boots @seanginnaw last edited by

        I'll ask them, thank you.

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        • webtematica
          webtematica @moon-boots last edited by

          The indentation code looks strange

          RcvWVNU

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          • webtematica
            webtematica @moon-boots last edited by

            I still think you should fix de separation in the keywords content= " as Sean said first time

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            • moon-boots
              moon-boots @webtematica last edited by

              I'm sorry, what do you mean by ''strange''?

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              • moon-boots
                moon-boots @webtematica last edited by

                I will of course fix that, but it won't resolve the issue at hand

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                • webtematica
                  webtematica @moon-boots last edited by

                  You first fix that by hand, and after you have to wait Google Re-index your site

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                  • moon-boots
                    moon-boots @webtematica last edited by

                    Yes, I know I need to edit the code - but finding the file is always a nightmare. While I can edit code, I'm not a developer, and I tend to spend a good half an hour finding the file only to implement a 5 second fix!

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                    • webtematica
                      webtematica @moon-boots last edited by

                      I can´t see what cms you are using (not wordpress, drupal or joomla), probably is in a theme template, in a folder call includes, the file the print the header, probably header.php or something, depends the cms or the structure.

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                      • moon-boots
                        moon-boots @webtematica last edited by

                        Ah yes, found it - thank you. I use Opencart, which isn't great. But your advice helped me find the file in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes so thank you. That is the keyword space fixed!

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                        • webtematica
                          webtematica @moon-boots last edited by

                          Fantastic, always when you need to solve this, usually look in the theme directory you are using, it is where it print the content, and like php developers, the folder "includes" is where the header.php, content.php sidebar.php or footer.php are (or similar), is the folder to put this files to not repeat this code again and again in all urls.

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                          • LoganRay
                            LoganRay last edited by

                            This is a weird situation, Screaming Frog isn't having any issues pulling your meta descriptions. Before you spend a bunch of time trying to fix this, I'd wait until your next crawl and see if the issue persists. It might just be a glitch in Moz.

                            Regarding your meta keywords tag issues, don't fix them, just remove that tag altogether. Search engines don't even look at that tag anymore. The only purpose that tag serves anymore is giving your competition an inside look at what you're targeting on what page.

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                            • ChiarynMiranda
                              ChiarynMiranda last edited by

                              Hi There!

                              It is a bit difficult for me to tell from this post exactly which URL that you are referring to, but I took a look at your full site crawl and narrowed it down using the page title "Astronaut Costumes", per the code you pasted above. Of the two pages with that title, http://www.interstellarstore.com/toys-and-costumes/astronaut-costumes and http://www.interstellarstore.com/astronaut-costumes, neither is being reported in the site crawl or the page optimization reports as missing the meta description. (Page optimization actually reports that the meta descriptions are too long.)

                              However, I definitely see that there are a large number of other pages in your crawl that are reported as missing the meta description. For the handful of those I checked, it does look like that error is being reported correctly. It looks like you've submitted a support request to our help team, so it would be very helpful if you could follow up there with specific examples of pages that are reported as missing the meta description, but that actually have the meta description in the source code so they can look into this further for you.

                              We look forward to hearing back from you there soon.

                              Chiaryn

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