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My blog is a local whats on blog with upcoming festivals, gigs, news, etc. While I’m posting stuff as Posts, I did originally have a couple of Pages with a lot of info on, eg a list of local music venues. These are getting lots of impressions but as they are Pages, they don’t have the little slug descriptions. I guess this means there is no little description in google for them. Should I swap them to posts? There is only three but they are the big static pillars of the blog.
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> I guess this means there is no little description in google for them.
This sounds like you’re missing a meta description tag. Use an SEO plugin like [SmartCrawl]) to set the description of your pages. This is what Google uses to display in search results.
Here’s a link to their docs talking about how to set the page title and description:
Do you have a link to your site? Even if you don’t have a manual excerpt or meta description tag set on the page (per a SEO plugin), Google will still use content from the page automatically to display a meta description.
When you google the site, are you saying the page shows up, but there is no description in the Google result? If that’s the case, and you have normal content on the page, that’s really weird. In that case you could always install a SEO plugin like Yoast SEO and manually enter your meta description.
Alternatively if this has nothing to do with SEO/Google and you just want to manually type something into an excerpt box like posts because it will make you feel better, you can always just add the excerpt box to pages by adding the following into your child theme functions.php file `add_post_type_support( ‘page’, ‘excerpt’ );`