[Ways to Solve] Short meta title and description problems

[cajkan]

Hello VL community,

There must be a way to solve this problems from Google webmaster tools:

- Short meta description
- Short title description

All details pages ( in our case users ) if they write some short meta description google expert said best way to solve:

- Delete the pages
- Make no-index on that pages

So example if 5-10 members register on your website and from 10 users 5 are short description or title, we must delete them and you gonna have lots of lots of troubles and work to do, even if you write rules the users simply dont read them.

So is there a way maybe somehow to detect character count for description and give no-index to the users, or maybe if theres a plugin where we enter usernames and by entering username that pages gets no-index.

If you guys have some other solution, please share it - because it is a trouble really. John Mueller from google webmasters said - " its ok if you have 10-20-100 short pages, but having 1000-10.000 that will be a problem. "

 

[Basti]

Eh, you want drop a index paged because it has short meta description? Thats sounds silly.
You sure he meant meta description? Thats sounds a bit odd, title maybe but description? it has no impact on rankings and is rarely even used on search results as google most of times construct a description themself based on the search terms

Ofcourse you can count the chars in description with a plugin, but i dont know...

 

[Mark]

basti is correct, the real issue to worry about is a lack of actual content on the details pages.

But, to increase the meta description length, a few ideas:

Add some custom fields so you have more unique content to work with, then add some of those to your meta description tag on details pages

Force users to enter longer descriptions

Add a short sentence so you can work the category name into the description