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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.

JoomUnited

<p>WP Meta SEO gives you the control over all your SEO optimization. Bulk SEO content and image SEO, on page content check, 404 and redirect</p>
<h3>IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THIS PLUGIN:</h3>
<p>After careful consideration, we’ve decided to merge the free versions of WP Meta SEO, WP Speed of Light, and WP Latest Posts into their respective premium versions. This consolidation will allow us to focus our resources on developing more robust, feature-rich extensions. We do offer some easy migration and prices for free users though.</p>
<h4>Read the full article: <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/news/important-announcement-evolving-our-wordpress-extensions-for-better-service-and-performance" title="Important announcement: Evolving our extensions for better service and performance" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog post announcement</a>.</h4>
<h3>WP Meta SEO plugin, main search engine optimization features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Bulk edit all website meta on a single view</li>
<li>Edit meta in content with live SEO analysis</li>
<li>Fix HTML image resizing in content</li>
<li>Bulk edit image file name and meta</li>
<li>Bulk edit SEO link title</li>
<li>404 errors redirect and internal broken link checker</li>
<li>Add Google Analytics tracking information and display statistics on WordPress</li>
<li>Generate XML and HTML sitemaps</li>
<li>Facebook and Twitter social sharing custom elements per content</li>
<li>Breadcrumb generator</li>
<li>Gutenberg SEO content checker</li>
<li>Canonical URL management for post, pages and categories</li>
<li>Elementor full integration with live onPage SEO in the Elementor page editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>WP Meta SEO Addon plugin (optional), additional search engine optimization</h3>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Google Search Console keyword suggestion in content</li>
<li>Add local business information</li>
<li>Email SEO report: SEO data</li>
<li>Email SEO report: Google Analytics data</li>
<li>Duplicate meta check</li>
<li>Automatic schedule crawl content for broken links</li>
<li>Redirect URL based on rules</li>
<li>Add custom redirect, not only 404 errors</li>
<li>Custom post type in sitemaps</li>
<li>Sitemap crawl for errors</li>
<li>Automatic Google Search Console sitemap submission</li>
<li>Google Search Console error import and fix</li>
<li>And more!</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-meta-seo" rel="friend nofollow ugc">More information and feature details here!</a></p>
<h3>Meta information bulk edition and image SEO</h3>
<p>Editing meta information on an existing website can be very long, open each post, edit, close it, open again and almost nobody was doing it. Especially if you need to edit content + image meta.<br />
WP Meta SEO is going to list all posts, pages, custom post types and all images. Type your meta content and fix image size and everything is AJAX saved.<br />
Plus, a bulk copy feature is available to save tons of time in your SEO optimization process:</p>
<ul>
<li>Content title to All meta titles (optional meta keywords)</li>
<li>Image name to Image title</li>
<li>Image name to Image alt</li>
<li>Optional keyword edition</li>
</ul>
<p>A bunch of people reduce the size of the pictures in content using handles that results to a HTML resizing. And that’s something wrong for SEO, for page loading time and for image quality.<br />
WP Meta SEO also include this feature in the bulk edition view, you are notified, and you can now optimize the size of your images in articles, click fix, and it’s replaced in your content (no broken links).</p>
<h3>On-page SEO optimization and content analysis</h3>
<ul>
<li>Content SEO smart analysis below content</li>
<li>Google Search Console keyword suggestion in content</li>
<li>Search engine snippet preview</li>
<li>AJAX SEO analysis refresh</li>
<li>7 criteria of SEO analysis</li>
<li>Force SEO criteria validation</li>
<li>Check: Page title word in content heading</li>
<li>Check: Page title word in content</li>
<li>Check: Page URL matches with page title</li>
<li>Check: Meta title filled</li>
<li>Check: Meta description filled</li>
<li>Check: Wrong image resizing</li>
<li>Check: Image meta title or alt</li>
<li>Check the Page builders content (Text, HTML, Heading content):<br />
Gutenberg, Visual composer, DIVI Builder, Beaver Builder, ACF, Site Origine, Themify builder, Live composer, Elementor</li>
</ul>
<h3>404 and redirect manager</h3>
<p>404 errors are bad for user experience and for your backlinks, Google hates it too: this is something that has to be fixed to improve your SEO.<br />
The redirect manager will help you to fix all types of 404 errors you can encounter on your website.</p>
<ul>
<li>Index all 404 errors from external source (external websites)</li>
<li>Internal broken links check: index all broken links you got in your posts, pages, custom posts, comments</li>
<li>Possibility to redirect URL, remove link, recheck link</li>
<li>Redirect all 404 errors to home page</li>
<li>Index all 404 types: URL and images</li>
<li>Monitor the 404 hits number</li>
<li>Flush existing indexed URLs and hits number</li>
<li>Setup and redirect to a 404-custom page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Google Analytics connection</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable analytics statistics in 2 clicks with token access</li>
<li>Tracking options to exclude WordPress user groups</li>
<li>File download statistics</li>
<li>Display Analytics statistics: session, users, organic, page views, bounce, location, pages, referrer, searches, traffic, technology</li>
</ul>
<h3>XML sitemap & HTML sitemap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Generate automatically xml sitemap</li>
<li>Generate automatically HTML sitemap</li>
<li>Sitemap source: menu selection (can be any content type), post, category of post, pages, author content</li>
<li>Setup update frequency and priority for each sitemap link</li>
<li>Crawl all sitemap URL for errors</li>
</ul>
<h3>Breadcrumb generator</h3>
<ul>
<li>Rich snippet breadcrumb</li>
<li>Control breadcrumb separator, links and display</li>
<li>Generate breadcrumb shortcode</li>
<li>Generate breadcrumb PHP shortcode</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>More details here:</strong> <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-meta-seo" rel="friend nofollow ugc">http://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-meta-seo</a></p>
<h4>Video demo:</h4>
<div class="embed-vimeo" style="text-align: center;"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/113695156" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<h3>Other search engine optimization features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Reduce page weight by fixing HTML image resizing</li>
<li>See all your snippet in one view</li>
<li>Image name, title, description, and legend</li>
<li>Dashboard SEO check</li>
<li>Automatic AJAX saving SEO content on bulk edition</li>
<li>On page analysis: fix SEO criteria</li>
<li>Custom post type meta edition</li>
<li>All custom post type and WooCommerce SEO optimization</li>
<li>Yoast SEO meta information importer</li>
<li>All in one SEO meta information importer</li>
<li>ImageRecycle image compression integration</li>
<li>Live Google snippet preview</li>
<li>Content meta length limit (Google + Yahoo + Bing)</li>
<li>SEO problem warning</li>
<li>One click image title copy</li>
<li>SEO bulk copy: Copy image name to image alt and/or image title</li>
<li>SEO bulk copy: Copy content title to content meta title</li>
<li>SEO 404 and redirect: all 404 errors monitoring</li>
<li>SEO 404 and redirect: Redirect all 404 errors</li>
<li>SEO 404 and redirect: Internal broken link checker</li>
<li>SEO 404 and redirect: Custom 404 error page</li>
<li>SEO 404 and redirect: Redirect all 404 in one click</li>
<li>Check for SEO error: is robot.txt blocking search engine</li>
<li>Bulk edit SEO link title in your content</li>
<li>Follow/No follow on WordPress content</li>
<li>Generate automatically XML sitemap</li>
<li>Generate automatically HTML sitemap</li>
<li>Sitemap source: menu, post, pages, category, and custom posts</li>
<li>HTML sitemap display with 3 frontend layouts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Main plugins from JoomUnited:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-media-folder" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Media Folder:</a>  Supercharge your media library with folders</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-file-download" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP File Download: </a>  Best in class file and document manager</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-speed-of-light" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Speed of Light: </a>  Speedup your website easily</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-latest-posts" rel="friend nofollow ugc">WP Latest Posts: </a>  Super flexible latest posts and content</li>
<li><a href="https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-table-manager" rel="friend nofollow ugc"> WP Table Manager: </a>  Create and manage tables with style</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>A HTML support document is provided with WP Meta SEO on JoomUnited website<br />
You are welcome to ask SEO questions on our forum or here in the support section<br />
<strong>Documentation here:</strong> <a href="https://www.joomunited.com/support/wordpress-plugins-documentation?extension=wp-meta-seo#document" rel="friend nofollow ugc">https://www.joomunited.com/support/wordpress-plugins-documentation?extension=wp-meta-seo#document</a></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<h4>!!NEW in latest & fresh 3.0 version!!</h4>
<p>Sitemap feature with XML for the Google Search Console and HTML with display option.</p>
<h4>SEO vision</h4>
<p>Search engines are a major source of traffic for most websites. That’s why our users often ask us for SEO tips and plugins that can help improve SEO of their WordPress sites.<br />
WP Meta SEO has been created to give to professionals and final users some real SEO tools to get better SEO rank. We think that SEO has to be something logic and durable. Overall SEO optimization requires a lot of time for each website, each client.</p>
<p>WP Meta SEO provides some automatic tools to analyze your content and give to search engine a better content to analyze.</p>
<p>WP Meta SEO on each new version, will focus on both “On-page SEO” and “Global website SEO” factors:<br />
On-page SEO: Features that help you optimize a single page, e.g. the article you are working on (with a live analysis). Common functionality includes giving SEO scores to each article, content/meta comparison, page analysis tools and making recommendations how to improve the SEO of a post.<br />
Site-wide SEO: it’s more about your whole site and structure between multiple articles. Common functionality includes title formatting, meta tag optimization as well as internal linking and redirects management.</p>
<p>And… don’t forget to check each month your SEO dashboard 🙂</p>
<p>PHP 5.6+, WordPress 5.x</p>


WP Meta SEO

WP Meta SEO gives you the control over all your SEO optimization. Bulk SEO content and image SEO, on page content check, 404 and redirect

VS Meta Description vs WP Meta SEO