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Funny bug...
« on May 6th, 2013, 07:25 AM »
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Think again :lol:

Meta description should probably hold consistent data within the topic, e.g. text from the first post in the topic, but there's no point in retrieving it again for a non-blog situation, for sure... :-/
Perhaps, at least, in a topic with a poll, maybe we should show the poll question instead..? Although, SEO-wise, it's already well visible...

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Re: Funny bug...
« Reply #1, on May 6th, 2013, 10:11 AM »
Nice spot, is this hardcoded of being picked up from somewhere?
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Re: Funny bug...
« Reply #2, on May 6th, 2013, 03:11 PM »
Picked up from the first post on the page.

Meta description always uses the first post on the page for topics, and reusing the description page to page is actually one of the OMG UR SEO !!!!ONEONEONE factors.
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Re: Funny bug...
« Reply #3, on May 6th, 2013, 03:23 PM »
Ahahah, it's not a bug. It's a feature: SEO porn positioning

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Re: Funny bug...
« Reply #4, on May 6th, 2013, 05:47 PM »
I was under the impression that the meta description was taken from the first post of a topic and not the first post on a page regardless of how many pages your down a topic hence why I was asking.

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Re: Funny bug...
« Reply #5, on May 6th, 2013, 06:39 PM »
If the meta description will take it from the first post on following sites Google complains about double description. So i think leave it as it is. Not a bug. Its OK!
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Re: Funny bug...
« Reply #6, on May 6th, 2013, 06:42 PM »
* Arantor points to multiple other systems that do exactly the same, most notably XF.

Also, just as a thought, with some multi-page topics, the first post my not be relevant. Oh, and Google may not use it anyway because it is supposed to be tied to the content actually on the page, and there's absolutely no guarantee that it will be a better description of the content than the first post would for the second and onward pages in a multi-page topic.

@Pandos, I did mention that too ;)
Re: Funny bug...
« Reply #7, on August 1st, 2013, 05:40 AM »
Marking as solved because it's not an actual bug.
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