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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.

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<li><strong>Open Graph and X Cards</strong> integration for enhanced social media sharing.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable titles and meta</strong> descriptions with dynamic variables.</li>
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<h4>Integrations:</h4>
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<h4>Third Party API usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>IndexNow: is used to inform Microsoft Bing about the latest content changes on a user’s website. The plugin sends a list of updated URLs along with the API key generated when the user saved the Instant Indexing settings. It also includes the site’s URL and the URL of the key location, allowing Bing to verify the website’s identity.<a href="https://www.indexnow.org/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms and Condition</a> | <a href="https://www.indexnow.org" rel="nofollow ugc">IndexNow.org</a></li>
<li>Google Instant Index: Is a service used to notify Google when a post is created, updated, or deleted. SiteSEO utilizes this service to inform Google by sending the updated post’s URL, its state (“UPDATE” or “DELETE”), and an access token obtained via Google OAuth. <a href="https://developers.google.com/terms/site-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms and Conditions</a> | <a href="https://developers.google.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Search Central</a></li>
<li>Google OAuth: When using Google Instant Indexing SiteSEO need to verify with Google the keys the users has set to access Google’s services. So SiteSEO sends the key users has provided in the SiteSEO settings to Google to verify the user is authorized to use those keys for Instant Indexing. <a href="https://developers.google.com/terms/site-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms and Conditions</a> | <a href="https://developers.google.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Search Central</a></li>
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