Tracking SEO Across Your Whole Site With the SEO Overview
Why a dedicated SEO screen
Meta titles and descriptions matter for click-through rate as much as for ranking — they're what a visitor actually reads in a Google search result, before they ever land on your page. The problem is the same one alt text has: these fields live deep inside each post's editor, under an SEO tab, in a sidebar panel. On a site with even a modest number of articles, checking which ones are missing a meta description means opening every single post.
The SEO Overview solves that by pulling every article, page, and project into one table, with the SEO fields editable directly from there.
What's in the table
Each row shows:
- The content's title, type (article, page, or project), and slug
- An editable meta title field (60 characters max, with a live counter)
- An editable meta description field (160 characters max, with a live counter)
- An editable meta keywords field
- A direct link back to that item's full editor
The 60 and 160 character limits aren't arbitrary — they're roughly where Google starts truncating titles and descriptions in search results, so the counters double as a real-time check against getting your text cut off with "..." in the SERP.
Five tabs, one number that matters
At the top, the same tab system used across the admin panel splits your content by completion status, each with a live count:
- All content — every article, page, and project
- Incomplete — missing either a meta title or a meta description
- No title — missing a meta title specifically
- No description — missing a meta description specifically
- Complete — both fields filled in
If "Incomplete" shows 40 out of 200, you know exactly how much is left before moving on to anything else. No spreadsheet, no manual audit.
Editing without leaving the table
Like the rest of the inline-editable tools in the admin panel, every field here saves itself. Type into a meta description, pause or click away, and it's saved via a background request — no save button, no reload, no jumping into the full post editor for a one-line fix. A quick confirmation appears next to the field once it's saved; if something goes wrong, you get an error indicator instead, so you're never left wondering if a change actually went through.
In practice: open the "No description" tab, write a description for each row, tab to the next field, repeat. Working through fifty posts here takes a fraction of the time it would take opening each one individually.
A note on meta keywords
The meta keywords field is included for completeness and stored alongside title and description, but modern search engines — Google in particular — no longer use this field as a ranking signal. Filling it in isn't going to move your rankings. If you'd rather spend your time elsewhere, it's safe to leave blank across your site.
Where to find it
The SEO Overview lives in the admin sidebar > Tools section. It's worth a pass after a content import or a site migration, and a periodic check afterward — it's the fastest way to confirm nothing is quietly shipping without a meta description.