Meta description repeats the title
description_repeats_titleShort answer
The page’s meta description is identical to its title, or begins with the whole title and only adds a little after it. In the search result the title and the description appear together, so the snippet repeats itself instead of telling searchers what the page offers.
Why it matters
Google uses the meta description when it describes the page better than text taken from the page itself. A description that only repeats the title adds no information, so Google is more likely to replace it, and searchers have less to go on when they choose a result. It is not a ranking factor, which is why the rule is informational.
How Glimana detects it
On every indexable page whose title is at least 20 characters long, Glimana compares the title and the meta description in lower case, with repeated spaces collapsed and trailing punctuation removed. The rule fires when the description equals the title or starts with the full title. The evidence shows the description.
How to fix it
- Find the affected pages in Glimana. Open Issues › Meta description repeats the title. Every affected page is a row; open one to see the evidence Glimana recorded for it (the measured value, the offending element or the target URL). The same list sits on the task card under Tasks, and the page's own detail view under Pages shows its full signals.
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Apply the fix on your platform.
Rewrite the description as a short summary of what the page gives the visitor: the answer, the product details, the price range, who it is for. Don’t start it with the title. Keep it specific to the page.
SEO plugins (Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO) often fill an empty description with a template such as
%%title%%followed by an excerpt. Change the default template for the post type so it doesn’t start with the title, and write descriptions by hand on important pages.Shopify uses the page title when the description field is empty in some themes. Fill in Search engine listing → Description for products and collections, or change the theme’s
meta descriptionfallback intheme.liquid.Generate the description from the page’s own summary field or the first paragraph of the content, not from the title. If you build it from a template, put the specific information first and leave the title out.
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Publish and clear caches. Save and publish, then make sure the crawler will see the new version: WordPress — clear the page cache in your cache plugin and purge the CDN; Shopify — theme and content changes go live on save, but purge any CDN in front of the store; custom code — deploy and purge the edge cache. Check in a private window or with
curl -s https://your-domain/page | grep -i '<title\|canonical\|robots'that the live HTML has changed; Glimana reads what the server sends, not what your browser has cached. - Verify in Glimana. Open the task under Tasks and click Mark as done. The next crawl compares the title and the description again, and the task closes when they no longer match.
How the fix is verified
The next crawl compares the title and the description again; the issue closes when the description no longer repeats the title. Google rewrites snippets on its own schedule, so the search result may take a few weeks to change.