Title: Description Counts?
Last modified: April 28, 2018

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# Description Counts?

 *  Resolved [Devotoare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sts_jon/)
 * (@sts_jon)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-counts/)
 * I’m having a problem figuring out why the plugin says this sometimes:
 * Description: Length is Good
    **And** is used 3 times
 * Or whatever number. Where is it pulling this number from? For the record this
   happens on half my pages, but none of them have the text in the content more 
   than once. The pages are made with Visual Composer, could that be causing it 
   to count too many times?

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 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-counts/#post-10229006)
 * Hi [@sts_jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sts_jon/),
 * These numbers warn you that you’re using “precious” description space with repeated
   words.
 * When potential visitors perform search queries on Google, and when a word in 
   the search query doesn’t match anything in your set description, Google tends
   to generate a custom description from the content of your page. This is unwanted
   by many website owners.
 * However, with the recent increase of the description length, these “word count
   warnings” were more likely to occur. This number still needs adjusting, and the
   warning can safely be ignored in many circumstances.
 * The word is taken from the description that’s outputted on the respective page.
   If it has a G next to it, it means it’s auto-generated.
    You can view the used
   description by going to the post edit screen. It’s placed in an edit field within
   the Post/Page SEO Settings meta box, next to “Custom Post/Page Description”.
 * Visual Composer doesn’t contribute to this behavior. Instead, it should prevent
   autogenerated descriptions.
 * I hope this explains the lot 🙂 Cheers!

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 * Last reply from: [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/description-counts/#post-10229006)
 * Status: resolved