: Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions? I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately,

@Radia820

Imho, you are spending your time for nothing...


Even though we sometimes use the description meta tag for the snippets
we show, we still don't use the description meta tag in our
ranking.


Source: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

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@Samaraweera270

I don't think using excerpts is a bad idea at all. Although, you will get better results if you custom write the meta description so that it is easily readable to possible visitors (Those who may view your site in a search result).

If it were me, I would do 10 to 20 meta descriptions per day and just start knocking them out.

As for plugins... It it would be pretty simple to do a db query and extract the first sentence from each paragraph of the body of your blog post, and then maybe use 4 of them concatenated for your meta description.

also... just a little SEO thing you may want to look at is the google rel author link
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/authorship-markup-and-web-search.html www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920
Best of luck!
Joe Harman

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@Nickens628

Not a bad idea at all, since your description becomes unique for each URL. Just make sure that the description (or your excerpt) is max. 160 characters long.

Check out the plugin "Ultimate SEO". That plugin has an option to mass edit meta tags with predefined values, such as {excerpt}, {blogname}, etc. on the fly. no need for you to manually edit each excerpt, etc.

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