meta description not showing up in google

@abbyd We checked on your site in a Google search here and are not seeing the same meta description for the pages shown in the search results (see image here).

Is this issue affecting only specific pages on the site? And if so, can you please provide us with example URLs of the pages so that we can check into this further?

They all appear the same in google here:

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I also noticed the descriptions appearing under site:crowfootliquor.co

are different than what I inputted in yoast in some cases.

for example the contact page here:google

and here are different: yoast

doesn’t seem like yoast is working at all…
is there something I could have done to conflict with it working?

@abbyd The area that you are referring to with the links shown below the search results are the so-called Sitelinks, and they are automatically generated by Google based on your site structure. It’s not based on our plugin’s settings. The Yoast plugin automatically adds all the necessary Schema needed to generate Sitelinks. So you won’t need to change anything from the plugin.

You could signal to Google which links you want to appear by using the following actions:

• Provide a clear structure for your website, using relevant internal links and anchor text that’s informative, compact and avoids repetition. These guides explain more:?Blog SEO: add and maintain categories on your blog and?Clean the Site Structure
• Allow Google to crawl and index important pages within your site. Use Inspect any URL?to check that they can be rendered properly.
• Consider using?noindex?to remove pages you do not want to be found in a search. This guide explains more —?How Do I Noindex URLs?
• Be sure to then resubmit your sitemap to Google as it will encourage Google to reindex your site and update its index. This guide explains more —?Submit Sitemap to Google
• You may also wish to contact Google for more information on how they decide which links appear. You can contact Google by making a post on their forums —?https://productforums.google.com/forum/?rd=1#!forum/webmasters.

did you take a look at the comparison of the meta descriptions from within your plugin and on google as I previously posted?

for example the contact page here:google

and here are different: yoast

Are these meta descriptions supposed to be controlled by yoast? doesn’t seem to be working.

I have no problem with the chosen sitelinks. It’s the descriptions under the sitelinks.

Thanks for following up with us. We looked at your site and can confirm that Yoast SEO is generating different meta descriptions based on your input on your website. In addition, we see that Google is showing different meta descriptions and doesn’t match to what you have defined in Yoast SEO.

We can confirm that Google often modifies the SEO title and meta description in the search results. It even rewrites them completely in some cases. You will find more information and troubleshoot steps given here: https://yoast.com/help/my-meta-descriptions-arent-showing-up-in-the-search-result-pages/

We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.