---
title: "Changing the Site Meta Description in Joomla 3.1"
description: "Your site's meta description is a short description about your website set within your HTML head tag. It's often used by search engines when they would like to show a brief description about a..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/site-meta-description/
date: 2012-07-26
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 3"]
tags: ["Joomla v3"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Changing the Site Meta Description in Joomla 3.1

Your site’s **meta description** is a short description about your website set within your HTML head tag. It’s often used by search engines when they would like to show a brief description about a particular website / page. In this tutorial, we’ll show how to adjust your Joomla 3.0 site meta description.

**To change your meta description in Joomla 3.0:**

1. [Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/)
2. In the left menu, click the **Global Configuration** link under **SYSTEM**
3. Ensure you are on the Site tab by clicking **Site**
4. Find the **Site Meta Description** setting under **Metadata Settings**. Enter a new *site meta description* and then click **Save** in the top left of the page.In our testing, we entered: *This is my website’s SITE META DESCRIPTION*. [![our-site-meta-description](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_our-site-meta-description.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_our-site-meta-description.gif) After changing our settings and then viewing our homepage’s HTML source code, we can see exactly how the *Site Meta Description* value is used: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="description" content="This is my website's SITE META DESCRIPTION." /> <meta name="generator" content="Joomla! - Open Source Content Management" /> <title>Home - Joomla 3 Testing</title> **Please note!** When [writing articles](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/write-new-article/), if you don’t enter a meta description for the article itself, your site’s meta description will instead show.