:navigation-title: Dashboard
.. include:: /Includes.rst.txt
.. _dashboard-widgets:

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Dashboard widgets for SEO
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.. _dashboard-widgets-missing-description:

"Missing Meta Description" widget
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..  versionadded:: 12.2
    The widget "Missing Meta Description" was added.

To make it more convenient for TYPO3 editors to optimize their website for search
engines, :composer:`typo3/cms-seo` offers a dashboard widget that shows pages without
a meta description.

The description field is important for SEO purposes. This field is used to
instruct search engines to use this text to show as a teaser of your page in
the search result snippets. With this description, you can give the user a
clear overview of the topic of this page:

..  image:: ../Images/google-preview.png
    :class: with-shadow
    :width: 600px
    :alt: Google result preview

.. _dashboard-widgets-missing-description-add:

Adding the "Missing Meta Description" widget to your personal Dashboard
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If you have the access rights to the Dashboard module and are granted access to
the "Missing Meta Description" widget you can add it yourself to your Dashboard:

..  figure:: /Images/add-widget.png
    :alt: Screenshot of the backend, showing the widget "Pages missing Meta Description" in category "SEO"

    Adding the widget "Pages missing Meta Description"

#.  Open the Dashboard module
#.  Click on the plus button to add a widget
#.  Go to category "SEO"
#.  Choose widget "Pages missing Meta Description"


.. _dashboard-widgets-missing-description-use:

Using the "Missing Meta Description" widget to improve SEO results
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Therefore this widget lists pages without a description in their meta data:

..  figure:: /Images/pages-missing-description.png
    :alt: Screenshot a widget listing pages without description

    Pages without description listed in the Dashboard

You can now click on the pencil icon to add a description to the page:

..  figure:: /Images/addDescription.png
    :alt: Screenshot of an edit form showing just the description field

    Add a description to the page