Why is my SEO check still failing after I added a meta description in my Shopify settings?

This can happen when there is no title code inside your theme. You can add a title to the theme by following the directions below.

Verify that there is no meta description

View your website
Right click and select ‘View Page Source’
Type Control+F (Command+F on a Mac) to open the search box
Search for <title> in the file to find the different titles in your theme
You should see that zero results appear

Create a meta description snippet file

View your themes in Shopify
Select ‘Actions’ and ‘Edit code’ for your live theme
Go the the ‘Snippets’ folder
Click ‘Add a new snippet’
Call it 'meta'
Create snippet
Add the following piece of code to the new snippet file

We always recommend you make a backup of your active theme before making any code changes.

<span style="font-weight: 300;"><!-- meta.liquid snippet  --><br></span><span style="font-weight: 300;">  {% assign maxwords = 30 %}</span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">    {% if template contains 'product' %}</span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">      <meta name="description" content="{{ product.description | strip_html | strip_newlines | truncatewords: maxwords | escape }}" /></span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">    {% elsif template contains 'page' %}</span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">      <meta name="description" content="{{ page.content | strip_html | strip_newlines | truncatewords: maxwords | escape }}" /></span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">    {% elsif template == 'index' %}</span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">      {% if shop.description != '' %}</span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">        <meta name="description" content="{{ shop.description }}" /></span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">      {% endif %}</span><br><span style="font-weight: 300;">    {% endif %}<br></span><span style="font-weight: 300;"></span><span style="font-weight: 300;"></span><span style="font-weight: 300;"></span>

Add the meta description to the theme

Open the theme.liquid file
Add the following piece of code between the <head></head> tags

<span style="font-weight: 400;">{% include 'meta' %}</span>