Allow users to control meta name tags on individual pages through the CMS

[knitmeapony]

Right now the summary in Google searches show up as 'you are not using Javascript'. You can manually put a meta tag in the templates, but when you are using the same template for each page that's less preferred SEO. Putting a field for this tag on the form for each page would be very helpful.

[nbudin]

I think this would be a great feature! It will take some time to implement, but in the meantime, I have a quick-and-dirty idea that would at least improve matters:

We do auto-generate a <meta property="og:description"> tag for link previews on social media feeds, so one quick/easy thing I could do would be to have it use that same content for the <meta name="description"> tag that Google uses. For the Be-Con 2023 homepage this would be:

Be-Con is Back! September 29 - October 1, 2023 Be-Con 2023 News 2023-04-07 Correction! This website and some of our advertisement material previously read "S...

Obviously not ideal, but it would be a super easy improvement. What do you think?

[knitmeapony]

I think that'll work great!

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On Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 12:22 PM Nat Budin ***@***.***> wrote: I think this would be a great feature! It will take some time to implement, but in the meantime, I have a quick-and-dirty idea that would at least improve matters: We do auto-generate a <meta property="og:description"> tag for link previews on social media feeds, so one quick/easy thing I could do would be to have it use that same content for the <meta name="description"> tag that Google uses. For the Be-Con 2023 homepage this would be: Be-Con is Back! September 29 - October 1, 2023 Be-Con 2023 News 2023-04-07 Correction! This website and some of our advertisement material previously read "S... Obviously not ideal, but it would be a super easy improvement. What do you think? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7697 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALRNP6AZ5GW7GYZJ4LLT3O3XAWHORANCNFSM6AAAAAAWZPBW6E> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[nbudin]

@knitmeapony OK, the workaround is now in production! I'll leave this ticket open because I do think having a way to override the meta description on pages would be ideal in the long term.

[knitmeapony]

Perfect thanks, I'll let the team know!

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