Following on from other post which is closed [image] Applying SEO settings to tags Feature Hi guys can anyone help me please, I am trying to SEO a Discourse site and finding it impossible to do. Can someone help me understand? I have changed the category and tag meta titles which shows in a browser tab correctly yet if i view page source they say just “News”. I have started to write some unique descriptions of each category and tag but for some reason Discourse strips everything for the Crawlers and they can’t see any of the text. [download1] [This image shows a webpage lis… The topic tag meta description has stopped working, basically when I update the topics description it doesn’t update the meta description. Old ones are working fine [image] CarpTalk - Carp Forum The worlds best resource for everything carp fishing related new topics stay as “topics tagged xxxxx” [image] CarpTalk - Carp Forum The worlds best resource for everything carp fishing related

Nope not working, nor are some of the tags on my site [Screenshot 2025-08-26 at 13.33.14]

This one works Carp Talk - Videos, News, Insights, Tips This is the new home of CarpTalk - the dedicated news, opinion and community hub within 10.fish — bringing together the latest carp fishing news, in-depth This one doesn’t Carp Talk - Videos, News, Insights, Tips This is the new home of CarpTalk - the dedicated news, opinion and community hub within 10.fish — bringing together the latest carp fishing news, in-depth I’ve done the same to both by adding the description [Screenshot 2025-08-26 at 13.36.14]

The tag onebox for #completed isn’t showing for me here either I am not sure why. Same thing for #release-notes apparently. Also has a description. https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes Adding /latest seems to get us closer but an error is shown in the composer preview: Sorry, we were unable to generate a preview for this web page, because the following oEmbed / OpenGraph tags could not be found: image, title Still doesn’t display as a onebox. https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes/latest

This is my issue, its been broke for months and can’t get anybody to look into it or any of the team to respond

OK, great! So it appears there are some replicable problems here which is good. That will help engineers hopefully with finding the source of the problem! I am moving this to #bug and slapping #staff-experience on it so the staff experience team can take a look when they get a chance. “Korda” tag on carptalk.org works correctly - the onebox description is the same as the description you see when you visit the page. https://forum.carptalk.org/tag/Korda “Horcott-lakes” does not work correctly - the onebox description is the default, as though there is no description specified. But when you visit the page you see the description is specified. On that page though the meta description does not correctly show the description but rather . https://forum.carptalk.org/tag/horcott-lakes Here on meta none of the tag oneboxes we’ve tried is working at all here in this topic - just the URL is displaying. e.g. https://meta.discourse.org/tag/release-notes has a description that you can see on the page. The expected behavior is that in all these cases the onebox will show and also contain the description specified for the tag.

Correct but i don’t see why we can’t have 2 options on the tag edit page - one for Meta Title and one for Meta description - same for categories. I can prove that we would be losing out on 100k+ uniques a month traffic wise, all discourse users would benefit from this and see a huge traffic increase as tags are some of the most important when users are Googling. My other site which I showed you has literally no h1 tag or text on the page (just lists of results) on the tags and generates 20k+ unique visitors a month

I believe you but we have to take baby steps here. For this topic let’s work on identifying if there is a bug with the existing tag description functionality and try to get that fixed up.

Trisha123: Discourse doesn’t give full control over tag meta descriptions. If you add a description to a tag, it will be used as the meta description in the server-rendered HTML.

[image] tobiaseigen: Here on meta none of the tag oneboxes we’ve tried is working at all here in this topic - just the URL is displaying. e.g. Topics tagged release-notes has a description that you can see on the page. I don’t think they’re expected to work ‘onsite’. But when I copy the link to my site it works as expected: [release notes tag onebox]

Well that’s great! Looking back over your earlier posts it appears this was never really broken. I did not realize that tag page oneboxing was never intended to work from within the same site. So this topic can be closed.

Les balises de sujet et la méta description SEO ont cessé de fonctionner

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j127 Décembre 17, 2025, 7:04 19

Si vous ajoutez une description à une balise, elle sera utilisée comme méta-description dans le HTML rendu par le serveur.

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