# News Plugin 📰

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** pavilion, broken\
**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971 "2019-01-30T22:26:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 8:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/115 "2022-05-09T08:44:00Z")

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> [@BCHK](#):
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> Jay, (or any other News Plugin Users) do you have any insights on why this /News plugin might be blocking google from properly creating a meta tag for the site.
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> My Site Description info is being completely ignored by Google - so I get no description in the google results page.

This is unrelated to the News Plugin. See further

> [@How to optimize Google Site Description / Results for News Plugin/ Discourse Site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-optimize-google-site-description-results-for-news-plugin-discourse-site/226155/21):
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> Hey @BCHKslight_smile No. The news plugin will not affect the content your website serves to Google’s crawlers. As others have pointed out in different ways, it’s not really up to Discourse. Discourse provides a meta description tag, and yours is appearing in the head of https://www.rapamycin.news as expected. It’s up to Google to decide what to do with that. \<meta name="description" content="Rapamycin and Anti-Aging Medicine Users&#39; Group Discussion Forum"\> Exactly - I think this …

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