Incorrect Google indexing

  • Resolved ayadorim

    (@ayadorim)


    8 years ago

    I have a WordPress website and started using Yoast not long ago. For some of my pages I changed the snippet, but now Google is indexing my pages all jumbled up. The snippet I put in one page, now shows up with other pages, while Yoast tells me that’s not the snippet Google should show.

    This is the snippet I added manually throught Yoast:

    This is the snippet of another page that Yoast shows organically:

    Yet, Google shows the snippet I manually added on two different pages and that snippet should not be there:

    Did the Yoast plugin mess up or did I?

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  • neotrope

    (@neotrope)

    Generally easy to check; view the actual ‘page source’ of the pages in question and LOOK at the actual on-page meta data to see what is actually there.

    Also check with Google debug tool (“fetch as google”); check for F12/console errors, resubmit sitemap after changes, etc.

    Not sure that helps, but it’s what I do.

    Also resaving permalinks and clearing all transients seems to help.

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    You searched for a specific search term (the bold words in the screenshot) which means Google scans the index for that exact phrase. Google uses the search term to highlight information in search results which is why the meta description is different than what you entered into the plugin.

    To see the meta title and description without search term manipulation, use the site search operator followed immediately by the URL of your site.

    site:example.com

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