I am currently experiencing a problem with my google results. My meta description has been changed to characters I know nothing about for no reason. Normally here was the description that is on my home page, but that is suddenly gone. (see the screenshot for clarification).
I've tried a lot of things to adjust the meta description, but unfortunately I can't figure it out and this is a bad image for my company.
It concerns the website www.webrange.nl that I built with wordpress. Does anyone have any tips or maybe a way to solve this? So that the description returns to normal.
I have changed the description in the head of the website:
All-in webdevelopment
And also changed it with a seo plugin, and in the theme it self.
Description displayed on google results can be different from the meta description of your website for multiples reasons.
Google crawlers doesn't crawl websites everytime, there may be a delay of few hours to few days between your meta description modification and the moment when google update the description displayed on search results.
As we can see and your page, the meta description seems correct. It 's possible that you already fixed your problem but you'll have to wait for Google to update it on their side.
You can check google search console to force a new indexation of your page, or (re)send your xml sitemap. It can accelerate the process.
Also, keep in mind that Google can use an excerpt of your page content instead of your meta description if Google decides that the excerpt he found on your page is more relevant than your meta description, depending on keyword searched by the user. Example : You have a page talking about cars, and the user search for "engine" in google. If your meta description does not contain the word "engine" but your page content has a text containing it, there is high probability that Google display a description with an excerpt of that content instead of your meta description. It can be confusing
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here is my site: escapebollaert.com
It is a site made on wordpress, my site is finished and I will want the referenced. I installed the Rank Math SEO plugin. But the problem is, when I modify the title and meta description with the Rank Math SEO plugin, and I do a search on google, the title and meta description do not appear? do you have a solution so that i can change the tittle and meta description of my site ?
I had the same thing few days back with one of my sites and it took google about 2 days to update it. But you need to know that in some (rare) cases, google will choose what they consider is the best thing to display on their search engine and you will have nothing to do about it. The only thing you can do (in my opinion) is to make sur the title of the page should be the same as the of your article.
How long are you waiting? It takes time for google to scrape your site and store what it wants to display to the searches.
I have trouble sharing page URLs from the website http://www.waterlinedata.com/ on LinkedIn: the Open Graph title and Description are ignored .However, the Facebook Debug tool returns all the information correctly (so I assumed the og tags are correct)
ex: www.waterlinedata.com/careers/
With the FB Debug, the og:title ( Careers | Waterline Data is hiring ) is correctly returned. However when trying to share the same link on LinkedIn, the og:title is ignored and it seems that the last part of the URL 'careers' is displayed instead.
Here is a screenshot from Facebook Debug
And below is a screenshot of a share on LinkedIn :
AS you can notice the og:title is not displayed (instead is the word "career" which is the name of the WordPress page and the last part of the URL ...)
It is a WordPress website, running the SEO plugin by Yoast.
Could someone help me resolve this problem? Thanks.
LinkedIn provides the two following modes for the sharing API preview...
Level 1
You supply: og:image tags.
Preview shows: title, url, image.
Level 2
You supply: no og:image tags, but an og:description tag.
Preview shows: title, url, description.
Regardless of the applicable level, the og: tags for title and url always display fine.
Since you supply an image, the description will not display. The Official Microsoft LinkedIn Sharing Documentation, which mentions the four tags (title, url, description, image), is silent on this matter.
We can test it, though. Wikipedia has no image tag, but a description tag, and we only see the description when sharing Wikipedia. GitHub, on the other hand, has both image and description tags, and we only see the image when sharing GitHub.
A conversation with LinkedIn support over the course of two weeks yielded no result. (oh the humanity) So, I think we are stuck with just the image for now in the LinkedIn preview. Right now, it seems like nobody can fix this but Microsoft themselves.
Google Search Results shows different variations when searched the Website name with adding a space. I am Using WordPress Yoast Plugin.
Sometimes the results just show as a link and sometimes the results shows with the Inner Page Link details as well?
Does anyone can help what makes that happen?
See Attached Sample
The inner page links you are referring are called termed as site-links by google, and these site-links are picked up by google based on your website ranking/traffic/popularity the more old/famous your site the fast site-links will be picked-up by google.
The search result is depends on the search phrase you use, Google will always match the search term with the title of the site, if more close the match the higher probability of pulling the site links.
You can also user google search console to demote the links to appear in google search.
And the Yoast SEO plugin will give you the options to title,describe,keyword every post and page of wordpress site, but this plugin/ any other plugins have no direct effect on this site links.
I have a website which uses WordPress. In Google Search Results, when you search for a post, the title of the link to the post is displayed as:
Name-of-the-post | Site Title - Site address
For example, the same is on the picture below:
However, I want it to be
Name-of-the-post | Site Title
Like here:
Initially, for Site title I used the address of the website and the result was:
Name-of-the-post | Site address
However, when I added a different title for the site (from WordPress admin panel), I ended up with the text of the link as in the first picture.
I also have Yoast Seo Plugin installed, but I do not find any settings there related to Google Search results.
Is this something I can change, or is it up to Google to generate these titles?
Google replaces your title.
For it may be different reasons.
Google write about it:
If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues
with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors,
on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with
well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with
different titles in our search results to better indicate their
relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title
tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed
regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often
find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result
is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user,
and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query
terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is
tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click
through.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624
Try add this meta tag to page:
<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>
enter image description here
I have tried to rectify this by searching the powered by ... in my root directory but im unable to find it. please help me on this.
These are your meta descriptions as shown by Google on search results.
You have three things going on:
You are not waiting for Google to pick up your changes. If you Google the name of your site, you will see that MANY of the changes to your meta descriptions are picked up.
The ones you have indicated in your screenshot are tag archives. You have to specifically set those up. In SEO by Yoast, you do it by: Log into your dashboard, go to "SEO" then "Titles & Meta", then click the "Taxonomies" tab, find the "Tags" section, and set the meta descriptions there.
Your site has likely been hacked. See those links for anime? And see this screenshot (Google your domain "wadeguh.com" and see what comes up):
How to fix this?
1. Clean up your hack.
2. Set up the Tag meta descriptions in Yoast.
3. Wait for Google to crawl again.