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Duplicate Meta Descriptions and SEO: Are Duplicate Meta Descriptions an Issue?

By John E Lincoln

In this short video Matt Cutt’s comments on duplicate meta descriptions and SEO.

His thoughts are, either have a unique meta tag description or no meta tag description, but do not have duplicate meta tag descriptions if possible. Duplicate meta descriptions will be flagged in Webmaster Tools, and while they are not necessarily the end of the world, Google doesn’t like it.

Duplicate Meta Descriptions and SEO

About John E Lincoln

John Lincoln (MBA) is CEO of Ignite Visibility (a 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 company) a highly sought-after digital marketing strategist, industry speaker and author of two books, "The Forecaster Method" and "Digital Influencer." Over the course of his career, Lincoln has worked with over 1,000 online businesses ranging from small startups to amazing clients such as Office Depot, Tony Robbins, Morgan Stanley, Fox, USA Today, COX and The Knot World Wide. John Lincoln is the editor of the Ignite Visibility blog. While he is a contributor, he does not write all of the articles and in many cases he is supported to ensure timely content.