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Bing webmaster tools incorrectly showing missing title and description tags
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Hey all,
Was wondering if anyone else has come across this issue. Bing is showing title and description tags missing in the head of my wordpress blog. I can't seem to find any documentation on this.
Thanks,
Roman
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Roman,
Awesome! Glad to hear you tackled the issue!
Let us know if we can be of any further assistance!
Trenton
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Trenton,
We actually solved the issue. It had something to do with a bad wordpress plugin.
Thanks for your time,
Roman
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Hello Roman,
This is an interesting issue. I'm going to need a little more information before I can fully answer this question.
Are you using any plugin for SEO on your WordPress site? Such as Yoast SEO?
When you go to the actual page of the site & view the source, do you see the title & meta description elements in the code?
Is this a problem on every page of the site, or just specific set of pages?
Are you blocking Bing's crawlers in your robots.txt file?Feel free to link the specific page here (if you feel comfortable doing so) so that I may look into this further!
Thanks!
Trenton
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