Meta Description in source code overriding Yoast Meta Description?

  • Resolved 96berwak

    (@96berwak)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I noticed that ever since I had my website redesigned (back in December) all the meta descriptions I put in Yoast for all my website pages and blog posts are not showing up in the Google SERP or site:marigoldandivy.com. The Title tags are showing but not the meta descriptions. Either it says “Marigold & Ivy offers natural, non-toxic, and eco-friendly solutions, services, and products for cleaning your home and making it safe for you and your family.” or Google has grabbed some copy from the page or post to use as the meta description and is not using the one I entered into the Yoast meta description.

    After some further research I noticed that the source code for the meta description is meta name=”description” content=”Marigold & Ivy offers natural, non-toxic, and eco-friendly solutions, services, and products for cleaning your home and making it safe for you and your family.”> for every page and post. This is the meta description I want for the home page but I want different meta descriptions for every page and post.

    The theme does have <?php wp_head(); ?> in the php file. So I am assuming it should output the Yoast SEO meta tags.

    Is the source code overriding the Yoast meta description? How can I display the meta descriptions I entered into the Yoast meta description?

    I am trying to start with the About page https://www.marigoldandivy.com/about/ of my site first but every page and post besides the home page needs the meta description changed. All the pages and posts have a unique meta description in the Yoast meta description area.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @96berwak We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.

    We reviewed several pages on your site and see that two separate meta descriptions tags are being output for each page in the source code. How this is occurring is likely due to one of them coming from the Yoast SEO plugin, and the second coming from another plugin or possibly your theme.

    See images here: Image1, Image2, Image3

    These duplicate tags are causing a conflict as when Google tries to read the page’s metadata it finds the meta description tag which have conflicting settings, which is causing Google to not display the description preview for your pages correctly.
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    ?To resolve this, we would recommend first reviewing your other plugins and theme’s settings to try and disable the other meta description tag from being output. If you aren’t sure which is causing the issue, you can perform a conflict check. The fastest way to do this is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like TwentyTwentyOne.

    Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin allows you to run a conflict check without affecting normal visitors to your site.

    If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: https://yoast.com/help/how-to-check-for-plugin-conflicts/

    ?Can you please try the aforementioned suggestions and let us know whether this resolves your issue?

    Thread Starter 96berwak

    (@96berwak)

    Hi

    So I ran the conflict check using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. I tested the plugins (one by one) while checking the source code in the twenty twenty theme that Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin put the site in. It only showed the meta description from Yoast. It did not show the meta name=”description” content=”Marigold & Ivy offers natural, non-toxic, and eco-friendly solutions, services, and products for cleaning your home and making it safe for you and your family.”>

    So meta name=”description” content=”Marigold & Ivy offers natural, non-toxic, and eco-friendly solutions, services, and products for cleaning your home and making it safe for you and your family.”> must only be in the theme of the site. The theme is causing the conflict with the Yoast meta description.

    I am assuming the meta name=”description” content=”Marigold & Ivy offers natural, non-toxic, and eco-friendly solutions, services, and products for cleaning your home and making it safe for you and your family.”> needs to removed from the theme. How do I remove this meta description tag from the theme/ pages?

    Thanks!

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @96berwak Unfortunately we wouldn’t be able to say exactly how to remove the meta description from your particular theme. If it isn’t apparent from the theme’s SEO options, we’d recommend reaching out to the theme’s developer for assistance.

    Thread Starter 96berwak

    (@96berwak)

    Okay, thank your for your help!

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