{"id":1623,"date":"2012-07-26T12:57:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/07\/26\/site-meta-description\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:01:13","slug":"site-meta-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/site-meta-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Site Meta Description in Joomla 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your site\u2019s <strong>meta description<\/strong> is a short description about your website set within your HTML head tag. It\u2019s often used by search engines when they would like to show a brief description about a particular website \/ page. In this tutorial, we\u2019ll show how to adjust your Joomla 3.0 site meta description.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To change your meta description in Joomla 3.0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard\/\">Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the left menu, click the <strong>Global Configuration<\/strong> link under <strong>SYSTEM<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ensure you are on the Site tab by clicking <strong>Site<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Find the <strong>Site Meta Description<\/strong> setting under <strong>Metadata Settings<\/strong>. Enter a new <em>site meta description<\/em> and then click <strong>Save<\/strong> in the top left of the page.In our testing, we entered:<br>\n<em>This is my website\u2019s SITE META DESCRIPTION<\/em>.<br>\n<a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_our-site-meta-description.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_our-site-meta-description.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"our-site-meta-description\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>After changing our settings and then viewing our homepage\u2019s HTML source code, we can see exactly how the <em>Site Meta Description<\/em> value is used:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"code_block\">&lt;meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/&gt;\n&lt;meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is my website's SITE META DESCRIPTION.\" \/&gt;\n&lt;meta name=\"generator\" content=\"Joomla! - Open Source Content Management\" \/&gt;\n&lt;title&gt;Home - Joomla 3 Testing&lt;\/title&gt;<\/pre>\n<p class=\"alert\"><strong>Please note!<\/strong><br>\nWhen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/write-new-article\/\">writing articles<\/a>, if you don\u2019t enter a meta description for the article itself, your site\u2019s meta description will instead show.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your site\u2019s meta description is a short description about your website set within your HTML head tag. It\u2019s often used by search engines when they would like to show a brief description about a particular website \/ page. In this tutorial, we\u2019ll show how to adjust your Joomla 3.0 site meta description. To change your<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/site-meta-description\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4403,94],"tags":[4404],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","category-joomla-3","tag-joomla-v3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Changing the Site Meta Description in Joomla 3.1 | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the Joomla 3.0 Global Configuration settings you can change your site&#039;s meta description.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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