DEV: Add site description to crawler homepage view #32845
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In some cases, Google crawlers don't output the meta description but rather they output the first bit of text in the UI. Sometimes that is a mix of table headings, topic titles and excerpts, which don't reflect the site's mission. Adding the description to the homepage header might help.
| get "/top", headers: { "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "Googlebot" } | ||
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| expect(response.status).to eq(200) | ||
| expect(response.body).to include("This is a test description") |
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Description says "should not" but test says it should include it?
heymarkreeves
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May 21, 2025
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In some cases, Google crawlers don't output the meta description but rather they output the first bit of text in the UI. Sometimes that is a mix of table headings, topic titles and excerpts, which don't reflect the site's mission. Adding the description to the homepage header might help.
Internal ticket t/154372