Html in Home Page meta Description

Howdy!

Sorry for my belated reply.

I’m not sure I understand the issue. What did you have before, and what do you want instead?

You can edit the homepage meta output at “SEO > Homepagina-instellingen > Algemeen.” The snippet on Google may still be different, but the web browser should display its tab title as displayed in the “Meta Titel” input field.

Thanks for the response, this is exactly the problem, Google does not display the meta tags added by The SEO Framework, it displays the page Title and HTML in the Meta description, I have talked to my hosting company, and they can’t figure it out. It’s a really weird bug. It leads to the following:

Title set: Welkom op de website van de Kerk van de Nazarener
Title Displayed: Kerk van de Nazarener Haarlem

Meta discription set: Welkom in de Kerk van de Nazarener, Elke zondag ochtend hebben wij om 10:30 een dienst, je bent van harte welkom! Bekijk ook onze andere activiteiten!
Meta Description Displayed: fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=4.2.0′);src:url(‘https://kvdnhaarlem.nl/wp- … kvdnhaarlem.nl/wp-content/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/assets/css/.

As you can see, it is not the problem that google is using a different one than the one that is set, but something breaks completely. Hope this helps.

Thanks for clearing that up! If I understand correctly, the issue is only on Google Search, independent of the browser.

Please see:
1. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-link#how-title-links-in-google-search-are-created
2. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/snippet#how-snippet-created

For both Titles and Descriptions, Google says that they take whatever from your website to serve the search engine user best. They will take into account your hints (e.g., the <title> element and description meta tag.), but they won’t necessarily employ those.

I see that TSF outputs the title correctly. Still, Google won’t use it in Google Search because it’s not the actual name of your website. In this case, welcoming someone isn’t describing the page, which is why Google leaves it out — it is also why Google ignores the meta description (which is welcoming visitors twice).

The reason Google displays HTML for the homepage is that they ignored your description, compounded by their parser failing to render the page (it couldn’t find content) — I believe this to be a (temporary) bug on their side. I recommend requesting Google to recrawl the homepage, which you can do via their URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#request_indexing. In less than 24 hours, the faulty HTML-only description should be gone from Google Search.

Hello there,

Thanks for your complete explanation of part of the problem, we have tried your suggestions, but the following error still happens. In the live preview form Google Search Console it only sees HTML:

https://ibb.co/kmJynnY
The image is uploaded in the link above, just a copy of HTML. More info, does not show any errors. It makes debugging quite difficult, are there any points I can try to help debugging this error?

To close out this issue, it was an error with the caching layer of my hosting company. They had a different server where Google spider request came in, the cache was broken so only an old version was stored on that server. Luckily, it had nothing to do with this superb plugin.

Many thanks for your help!