Fix Missing Meta-Description?

[DuBois]

We have a Wordpress site. SEOMoz crawl diagnostics are showing 144 missing meta-description tags. The problem is that about 100 are blog pages:

http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/page/15/

http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/page/16/

http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/page/17/

Etc.

We have a meta-description for http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/ but not for every page....

is this a problem? How can we fix it?

Thanks!

[TakeshiYoung]

Meta descriptions are not a huge issue. Google will use them as a suggestion for description in the search results, but will generate a description even if the meta tag is missing.

What may be a bigger problem is that you have all these blog pages indexed, which is basically just duplicate content. I would go ahead and put a noindex/follow meta tag on these pages to prevent them from getting indexed.

http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/conquering-pagination-guide.html

[david.pinto]

True. Google looks for description also inside the text, non only reading meta tag. It depends on the search query.

But are you sure that Google consider these twoo pages as duplicate content?

http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/page/16

http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/page/17

I'm not quite sure.

[MikeRoberts]

Page 16 and Page 17 are not necessarily duplicates of each other but since each page is showing the entirety of the articles, instead of a snippet/preview/etc, every article would be a duplicate of the exact content showing on those pages.

So, I'd definitely agree with NoIndex on those pages.

[DennisSeymour]

just noindex them and move on.

You have more use for your time vs worrying about wordpress pages.