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How to add a Page Description on a Yola Website

Why do I need to add a page description on my yola website? Search engines read text to know the topic of a page and there are three tags that specifically alert the search engine to what a page is about;

Title Tag How to add a page title on a yola website
Description Tag How to add a page description on a yola website
Keyword Tag How to add keywords on a yola website

Below is how search engines see your description tag:

<meta name="description" content="How To Create a Website isn't that difficult, once you know how! How to create a website is a free tutorial site, learn how to make a website using easy to understand, website builders, design tips, website design tutorials and lots more." />

What is a Meta Description? Meta description tags, while not so important to search engine rankings, are extremely important in gaining user click-through from search engine result pages (SERPs). These short paragraphs are webmasters opportunity to advertise content to searchers and let them know exactly what the given page has with regard to what they’re looking for. The meta description should employ the keywords intelligently, but also create a compelling description that a searcher will want to click on that search. Direct relevance to the page and uniqueness between each page’s meta description is key. The description should optimally be between 150-160 characters. Avoid Duplicate Meta description Tags, as with title tags, it is important that meta descriptions on each page be unique.

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Below you can see how the above meta tags look on the search engine.

Yola provides an area to edit these tags. To access this area click on "Page" on the main menu and choose "Page Properties". The area labeled Description is where you will put your description tag. Your description tag should include your main keywords for the page, or variations of your keywords, as well as the name of your company.

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