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I have plenty of pages on my website and plenty of images. The problem is that i have the same meta descriptions on the articles pages as well as on the gallery pages. How can i solve this?

Can someone help me?

In a number of ways:

1. Use unique meta description for each entry using a custom channel field
2. Use a category custom fields for category pages
3. Use something like Low Variables for other page types
4. Remove meta descriptions altogether and let search engines do their own thing (you may be surprised at the good results you can get!)

Ok, so here is my problem.

I have an article with a photo gallery. The problem is that each images gets the same meta description as the gallery. Should i simply remove the meta description from the gallery? Or should i use something else?

Here is what somebody offered me as a solution: to avoid duplicate meta description you have to input take seperate channel fields; Or we can put some suffix or prefix sentences so they can be unique.

What do you think?

Ok your article that contains an image gallery could have a meta description, in which case it would (can) be unique. The gallery images - are you launching the large versions in a separate template, using a lightbox, or just linking directly to the image?

Here it is, take a look here:

http://www.4wheelsnews.com/toyota-racing-to-field-two-ts030-hybrid-cars-in-le-mans-24-hours/

You could use the images caption or description to populate a meta description, or add a custom field for the image channel entry?

The main idea is to make it simple and fast because i have plenty of images and simply can’t add a custom field and edit all the articles again.

One question: Would it be ok to add the meta title as the description? I mean for example this: 2012 Toyota TS030 HYBRID - Picture: 185471. Both title and description?

Yes you could do that, but the same description twice is a bit of a waste. I’d suggest removing the meta description for the image view page altogether and let search engines grab whatever info they want.