--- title: "No meta description in (seo/meta-description-missing)" description: "seo/meta-description-missing: Without one, search engines and link unfurlers pick arbitrary page text for the snippet; agents also use it as the page summary." canonical: https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/meta-description-missing lastModified: 2026-09-16 --- # No meta description in `seo/meta-description-missing` · severity **error** · category SEO · detected by `void seo` and `void audit` ## Why it matters Without one, search engines and link unfurlers pick arbitrary page text for the snippet; agents also use it as the page summary. ## How to fix it Set a unique description per page via metadata/generateMetadata. ## Example ```ts export async function generateMetadata({ params }: Props): Promise { const { slug } = await params const post = await getPost(slug) return { title: post.title, description: post.description } } ``` ## References - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/snippet ## More seo rules `void seo` reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in , self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates. - `viewport` Viewport meta missing, not device-width, or blocks zoom — [seo/viewport](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/viewport) - `charset` Character encoding not declared early — [seo/charset](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/charset) - `title-missing` No single non-empty in <head> — [seo/title-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/title-missing) - `title-length` Title length outside 10–60 characters, or keyword-stuffed — [seo/title-length](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/title-length) - `meta-description-length` Meta description length outside 50–160 characters — [seo/meta-description-length](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/meta-description-length) - `metadata-in-body` Crawler receives <title>/canonical/description inside <body> (Next.js streaming metadata) — [seo/metadata-in-body](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/metadata-in-body) - `canonical-missing` No single rel=canonical in <head> — [seo/canonical-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/canonical-missing) - `canonical-invalid` Canonical URL is relative or contains a fragment — [seo/canonical-invalid](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/canonical-invalid) Detected by `void seo` and `void audit`. Explain it in a terminal: `void rules seo/meta-description-missing`