🔍 SEO - Add meta descriptions for Category pages

[Calinator444]

Cc: @bradystroud
Hi

🤕 Pain

None of the category pages on SSW Rules have unique meta descriptions. Since there's no seoDescription field for these pages, they just use the placeholder, which Google isn't using because it's a duplicate across all of the category pages.

Suggested Solution

I'd recommend adding a meta-description field for the category files and then auto-filling them using a script.

Tasks

• Update the category schema to include a meta-description field
• Update SSW Rules to query and use this field on the frontmatter
• Add meta descriptions for all of the rules categories
• Get the meta descriptions approved by either Ulysses or someone from marketing
• Update the rules validator to check for the SEO description

More Information

Hint: I'd tweak the SEO description filler for the SSW Website to work with Rules https://github.com/SSWConsulting/SSW.Website/tree/main/scripts.
This script will also export the list of new descriptions as an excel document which can be sent to marketing for review.

Screenshots

Figure: Snippet being used for meta description on Rules to Better Slack