Meta Description

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mootonandy

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Jun 21, 2010

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• Aug 15, 2011

• #1

Hi,

Instead of where the meta description should show in the SERP, it shows the first line of the first article of my blog.
I put the meta description in the all in one SEO but its not showing it. My blog has been ranked for a couple of months now and its wierd because it doesnt do this on my ohter blogs.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve it?

Thanks a lot.

 

hurn

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Jan 21, 2009

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• Aug 15, 2011

• #2

If Google found good meta related to searched term Google will show that for their listings.

 

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dcd3sk8er

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• Aug 15, 2011

• #3

Make sure that if you are using xhtml you put all tags in lower cases. XHTML doesn't read upper case meta descriptions like <META DESCRIPTION="">

 

ibins

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May 9, 2011

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• Aug 15, 2011

• #4

proof with seocentro metatag analyzer if your metas are readable.
had once some sites which didnt get read.
after i copy / paste and saved it in a new file again, it did.

 

milian

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• Aug 15, 2011

• #5

hurn said:

If Google found good meta related to searched term Google will show that for their listings.

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Could be this. If there is content in the body of the page which is more relevant to the search term than the meta description, google may show this.

 

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Kaithe.Clarke

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Jun 3, 2011

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• Aug 16, 2011

• #6

The reason is very simple for this, Google is not finding your meta description relevant to your page. It is choosing a relevant snippet of your blog post and displaying it as description. This usually happens, if you have flawed description tags.

 

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steviep

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Oct 25, 2010

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• Aug 16, 2011

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Google attempts to return the best snippet that is of use to the searcher and sometimes they do get it wrong - they also less and less return what the webmasters wants. Sometines it is the meta description; often its the text surrounding the keyword that was searched for; sometime its the DMOZ description.

 

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William Rufino

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Aug 3, 2011

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• Aug 16, 2011

• #8

On my tests now, google is most of the times, iguinoring my meta description...

 

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mootonandy

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Jun 21, 2010

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• Aug 17, 2011
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• #9

Thanks for your help. I think its because it was only a few words - ill write a longer one.

 

shoaibahmad9999

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• Aug 17, 2011

• #10

I think so wp plugin "All In One Seo" can do this job