OK - I see what you mean now. We’ll look into this as well!
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Would be awesome to see this implemented as we are struggling hard to get “tags” ranking due to the output of the word “topic” no one searches for any of our keywords and topic and tags are the most important as they yield the highest number of searches, also they look horrible in the search.
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Stupid question but
Do i have to wait until Discourse releases an update?
That’s already in tests-passed, so unless you are stable … it’s there already.
Sorry but i am not sure what you mean, I just have a 3.5.0.beta2-dev
tests-passed is the default standard install branch. You can check in app.yml if you are self hosted.
It’s already on that branch, so if you update an instance that is using that branch, you will bring down that change now.
I have one self hosted (which is up to date) and one that will be hosted by Discourse and both are up to date but not showing the fix
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It may have just taken a little while to deploy everywhere - could you check again and see if it’s there? I just checked on a site hosted by Discourse, as well as on a self-hosted site, and they’re both showing the tag description in the HTML metadata.
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Yes the hosted is now there, this is awesome and we will soon see our tags ranking 
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Now it’s just the tag titles and category titles that need changing to achieve a perfect CTR
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Is there a timescale for the title fix yet guys
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I’ve been following this topic and am also interested in it for our own purposes here on meta.
It is indicated as solved by Applying SEO settings to tags - #20 by pento but that only makes the tag description show up in the meta description for the tag page. Also it appears to not be working reliably. Damian started Topic Tags SEO meta description stopped working to ask for that to be looked at.
As I understand it, the ask is to make it possible to specify four distinct things for tags:
- tag title
- tag description
- tag meta title
- tag meta description
(2) already exists, and if specified shows up on tag pages, and is also served up to search engines via the meta description on tag pages (4).
To optimize tag pages so they work well interactively on the site as well as showing up attractively in search results so people actually click on them, you want to be able to edit all four of these individually.
Category pages share the same problem.
2 is broken and doesnt work
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