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Outside <head>

What This Means

Pages with a meta description that is outside of the <head> element in the HTML. The meta description should be within the <head> element, or search engines may ignore it.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when a page has a meta description outside of the <head> element in the HTML.

How To Fix

Ensure meta descriptions are in the <head> element of a page’s HTML so that search engines can choose to use them for their search engine result page snippets.


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