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<p>Google Referrer Checker is based on an idea and script from Russ Jones (@rjonesx) on <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-seo-chasing-the-elusive-passive-seo-dream" rel="nofollow ugc">SEOMoz</a>.</p>
<p>Here is how he describes it:</p>
<p>We often joke that “Google knows everything.” While we can lament the loss of privacy and liberty, there is one thing that I do want Google to know about – my links. I want them to know about as many links pointing to my site as possible. Unfortunately, Google misses out on a good portion of the web. Well, what if you could find links that Google hasn’t necessarily found, and then make sure that Google does index them and count them?</p>
<p>If you were go into your Google Analytics right now and export all of the pages that have sent visitors to your site since your website’s inception, what percentage of them do you think will have been indexed by Google? 90%, 95%, 99%? Sure, it will probably vary from site to site, especially given how many different sites out there have sent traffic to you, but there are likely to be a handful that Google never got around to crawling. Our goal with this first set-it and forget-it tactic is to find the pages that refer traffic to your site on-the-fly and make sure if they have a link, that Google knows about it.</p>
<p>Ideally, our automated the script would:</p>
<ul>
<li>Record every referrer from other sites.</li>
<li>Spider that site to see if it actually has a real, followed link.</li>
<li>Check to see if Google had cached that referring page with the followed link.</li>
<li>Coax Google to reindex that page if it had not yet found the link.</li>
<li>Continue to check to see if Google had cached the referring page.</li>
</ul>
<p>This is actually quite easy to accomplish programmatically. The first three steps are done every day by tools regularly used by SEOs. The only difficult part is finding a way to encourage Google to visit the referring pages it has not yet indexed. We can solve this by simply having a widget on the page that displays those referrers, essentially an “As Seen On” bulleted list of pages that had linked to your site, but had not yet been indexed.</p>
<p>This plugin does just that. And adds a simple widget that will display the unindexed links.</p>
<p>You can see it in action on one of our <a href="http://gunnertech.com/2012/02/google-referrer-checker-a-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">site</a>.</p>
<p>For any more questions, please go to Gunner Technology’s post: <a href="http://gunnertech.com/2012/02/google-referrer-checker-a-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Referrer Checker: A WordPress Plugin</a> and leave a comment.</p>
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<p>Requires WordPress 3.0 and PHP 5.</p>


Google Referrer Checker

A plugin that coaxes google to index sites that link to your site.

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<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.</p>
<p>The meta description summarizes the content of a post or page.</p>
<p>Search engines such as Google and Bing will use the meta description when displaying search results.</p>
<p>Add a meta description only for your homepage, or for each individual post and page.</p>
<p>This plugin also supports WooCommerce products, product categories and tags.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation go to the settings page. This page is located at Settings > Meta description.</p>
<p>More info about using this plugin is displayed there as well.</p>
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
<p>Please take a look at the FAQ section.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.</p>
<p>More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-meta-description" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!</p>
<p>The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!</p>


VS Meta Description

it's really foolish to stick a single meta description in the sitewide header template. that's duplicate content so google knows immediately it's poor quality. it will do more harm than good to your rankings.

1 description duplicated sitewide = bad seo

Simple plugin doing exactly what it is supposed to without bloat. 
Maybe a button could be added to the Default Open Graph Image field, to select the image directly from the library instead of pasting its URL.

Works perfectly

The plugin works perfectly, it is extremely small (8kb zipped), which is a big plus, and the developer is super nice, very responsive and simply awesome.

Thanks a million,
Nick.

A 5 star plugin

Its perfect

With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.

Google Referrer Checker vs VS Meta Description