I have a new site that was launched a few weeks ago. I'm using wordpress, and my site is very complex... a complete cms (online magazine). The problem is that every single article that is being indexed is using the exact same description (coming from my sidebar). I understand that I could use an seo plugin to modify the description. That's not my issue. My question is, won't this effect my rankings? Since the search engines are obviously picking up my sidebar content, and that's diluting the real content in each article. Is this a coding issue? How should I proceed from here?
don't use same description in every page its effect on ranking so use different description in each page than u got page wise result
The <title> text is the most important, but <description> really does help. IF you can't modify these field in your application tool, select something else. Your pages will not rank very well. But if you do go up against an SEOed site, you will lose everytime. My advice is if the tool you use is not SEO Friendly, don't use it. To fix this problem, you will need to do a site conversion down the road, and that will be more expensice in money and time than any of these current free tools everyone seems to be using. It's only your time and money you will be waisting, but 3/4 of our customers come to us to redue their site for SEO Friendly reasons. The number one reason, their selected content management system can not adjust the title and description.
Let me clarify. Changing the meta description is not the issue here. I can do that easily with a plugin. What I'm worried about, is that the search engines are taking the content from the sidebar, and thinking that it's part of each article. This does two things: 1. Dilutes the actual keywords of my article 2. Duplicate content penalty Am I right? Does this mean that my theme was coded wrong?
Did so but how would "all in one sep pack" not over ride this "sidebar" issue. though I don't exactly know what you mean by that?
I can change the description... that's not what I'm worried about. But just because the description is changed, doesn't mean that Google isn't taking that content into account, when ranking an article. In other words, all the content in the sidebar is being mixed with all the content in the article (from a search engine's view), which is going to basically make ranking for any keywords impossible... ...at least that's what I believe, and why I'm here asking about it.