{"id":1098638,"date":"2016-04-05T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/seo-description-for-main-events-page\/"},"modified":"2016-04-23T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T16:35:04","slug":"seo-description-for-main-events-page","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/seo-description-for-main-events-page\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Description for Main Events Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I launched a redesign of my website on March 1 using Events Calendar Pro. I&#8217;ve followed instructions so that each event is using the Yoast SEO box to put a unique meta description on every event.  The problem is that the main events page is not using the correct meta description. (This page: http:\/\/mauimagazine.net\/maui-events\/) Instead, it&#8217;s showing a meta description from an event post, rather than pulling the meta description that I want for our main events page (see screen shot showing meta description here: https:\/\/mauimagazine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-05-at-11.40.51-AM.png).  <\/p>\n<p>The big problem is that it&#8217;s affecting our rank in Google. We should be at slot #2 or #3 for our main keyword &#8220;Maui Events Calendar&#8221; but with this problematic meta description, the site is dropping to rank spot #4 or #5 since the redesign launched March 1. SEO is a huge part of our redesign so this is a problem and I know it should be easy to fix, but I haven&#8217;t been able to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>How do I control the meta description for the Events page so that it shows the description I have written, instead of pulling from an event post?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1098638","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SEO Description for Main Events Page -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/seo-description-for-main-events-page\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEO Description for Main Events Page -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I launched a redesign of my website on March 1 using Events Calendar Pro. 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