Meta description same as the page title Search Engine Guideline

Description

The meta description tag is the same as the title.

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The meta description appears below the title in the search results. A search result listing with an identical description and title receives fewer clicks than a listing with a description that gives additional information.

Applicable standards

Change history

  • 5.36 Jan 2020 Take X-Robots-Tag into account.
  • 5.3 Sep 2013 Fixed false positive.
  • 4.2 Dec 2010 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: SeoBingMetaDescriptionIsTitle