Blogs should have unique meta description to help with SEO

[iskerrett]

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It appears all of our blog posts have the same meta description: "Scale your Node-RED deployments in production. Open-Source and available on Docker, Kubernetes or Cloud"

Each blog post should use a unique meta description to help with SEO.

[knolleary]

To be precise, where are you seeing this meta description?

Each blog post does have a custom meta description - it's a matter of knowing where that is/isn't being surfaced properly.

[iskerrett]

Here is a screen grab. It seems we have two description fields but I am pretty sure Google cares about the first one.

[iskerrett]

We also curiously seem to append 'FlowForge' to our page titles. I can't find where we do this but it would be nice to not have it since it looks odd when you link to a page.

[iskerrett]

Pages should begin to add meta tag in the markdown.

[joepavitt]

• Issue created to track for the page changes to add these descriptions: Add meta.description for our pages #556

Regarding the - FlowForge in our title, this is a standard thing to do, see pretty much any other website, they will do the same:

• https://www.hivemq.com/hivemq/mqtt-broker/
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business
• https://www.confluent.io/product/stream-designer/
• https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/aiops
• https://tailwindcss.com/docs/
• https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/edge/

You'll struggle to find a site that doesn't do this.

[joepavitt]

to nick's point:

Each blog post does have a custom meta description

It seems we don't rely on description but meta.description, iirc this is because the description can include html content, which the <meta> doesn't like, but will have a play to see if a better way to handle that. We could/should just fallback to description if meta.description isn't provided