Cant edit homepage blurb in Google from “Got any good book reccomendations”

  • Im setting up a wordpress site, and when my site appears in Google search, it says the Website name and tagline, but below it just says “Got any good book recommendations? Get in touch. Proudly powered by WordPress”

    Ive been stuck on this issue for hours with no progress. I tried using RankMath to edit the meta description of the Homepage, and this did nothing.

    People have said that you need to delete the text somewhere that says “Got any good book recommendations” etcetera, but there is no text I can find anywhere on my site that even says this.

    WordPress official help attributes this problem to Google, saying “Search engines like Google choose what information to select for the search results”, which seems kindve like theyre just passing the buck… Seems pretty clearly a WordPress problem not a Google problem, when its text autogenerated by WordPress that doesnt even appear on my site that is the issue.

    Any help would be much appreciated, finding it very frustrating as none of the solutions like using RankMathSEO have worked

    Cheers

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Google does not update their index in real-time.

    If you found something that said “Got any good book recommendations? Get in touch.” in your attempts to fix this and then changed that, it can take Google weeks, sometimes months, to update it in their index.

    Thread Starter somanyglitches

    (@somanyglitches)

    Hey James, thanks for the reply.

    I couldnt find the text in question anywhere on the site. I only made the wordpress site less than 2 days ago, but the site description in google updated instantly in that case… So the google index mustve updated virtually instantly in this instance too.

    The thing is, my WordPress site is linked to a subdomain on my site that I have on Namecheap Web-Builder

    However, the WordPress site should be separate, since its a subdomain

    But the WordPress blurb (Got any good book reccomandations), is coming up as the site description for the other section of the site, the domains main homepage, which is completely separate from the WordPress homepage

    Any tips?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    It’s hard to help further without a link to the site with the problem.

    Without that, the best I can say is “it must be somewhere, otherwise Google wouldn’t have picked it up.”

    Thread Starter somanyglitches

    (@somanyglitches)

    Thanks, yea it will be some issue with my config, ill try and nut it out… Probably wouldn’t happen for a cleaner WordPress configuration than on a subdomain of a pre-existing site im guessing. Theres probably no simple answer

    You can log in to your GSC account (or create one), and see the indexed page HTML. That should point you in the right direction. And if the text is no longer present, you can tell Google to refresh outdated content.

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