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I feel you, and I know you posted this a long time ago, but the redirect feature within the Yahoo interface JUST NOW (last few months) became available.

As is the norm with Yahoo, It is the one of the worst designed and implemented features I've ever seen.

I use Yahoo now for my father's online store. I would NOT recommend using Yahoo unless you are coming into a situation where your client's store is already a Yahoo store and is well established.

I could write for pages on how far behind the features are. Our little business is small potatoes and we are consistently 2 years ahead of yahoo when adding features to our site and when finding solutions to our e-commerce problems.

I know you didn't necessarily just recommend it by saying "Old platform but people still like it. But who knows how long it will be around..."

But, I am here to RECOMMEND AGAINST IT.

Thanks, you were a big help. I'll do the A/B you are talking about.

I am thinking at this point I'll probably go with the body text. The site I'm talking about has well written text as the body of most pages. And, as I said, I'll be writing custom descriptions for the most important pages.

Thanks for the response.

I understand what you are saying. It sounds to me like you think (as Luke does below) that if duplicating the body text (which is good quality) will work then that's the best way to go?

What about Luke's suggestion of using dynamic text? Do you think dynamic text could be better than quality body text? I've never worked with any dynamic text. Are what are the downsides?

I'll investigate the questions you posed as well.

Thanks, we are thinking along the same lines here. The text from our body will 95% of the time be of good quality for a description, so it might work just fine.

I didn't think about creating dynamic text. Good idea. This might be the best middle ground for all the pages I don't plan to give personal attention.

Looks like I have a couple options to consider.

I am working with a yahoo store. Somehow all of the meta description fields were filled in with random content from throughout the store.

For example, a black cabinet knob product page might have in its description field the specifications for a drawer slide. I don't know how this happened. We have had a programmer auto populate certain fields to get them ready for product feeds, etc. It's possible they screwed something up during that, this was a long time ago.

My question. Regardless of how it happened. Is it better for me to have them wipe these fields entirely clean? Or, is it better for me to have them populate the fields with a duplicate of our text from the body.

The site has about 6,500 pages so I have and will make custom descriptions for the more important pages after this process, but the workload to do them all is too much. So, nothing or duplicate content for the pages that likely won't receive personal attention?