When you search your forum in google, I can see others have their descriptions in the results. I have my site in the google results but it says
The HD Forums
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www.thehdforums.tk/
How can I edit it to have my forum's description instead of that?
in the templates&styles->templates->your theme templates-> index page templates->open index
and add meta description and name
<html>
<head>
<title>{$mybb->settings['bbname']}</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="hd, tutorials, ......" />
<meta name="description" content="your site description" />
<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />
<link rel="canonical" href="site url" />
<meta name="author" content="site name" />
allow some time to be indexed in google
The only thing he actually needs to add to fulfil his request is:
<meta name="description" content="your site description" />
yep, i know. but i gave him detailed information that he need to be added to fullfil everything that is required for search engine indexing.
Which of those two is better?
i gave you detailed meta info. if you just want to describe your site and like to have it indexed in google just use this line
<meta name="description" content="your site description" />
It's just weird but when I tried to save that code in the Index template in the Head part, after I click save, everything was wiped out so I have to revert the index template again