• Resolved mish99

    (@mish99)


    Hello, I use and love Yoast. But I have noticed that if I search for my company name the Google meta description is generated by Google – I have an image I can send to explain this more clearly.

    I have set up a meta description for the home page and thought Google would use that. But it doesn’t. I would love your help on this and think it would make a great post!

    cheers

    Michelle

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We checked on the page https://deltaswan.co.uk/ and did confirm that Yoast is outputting the following meta description:

    <meta name=”description” content=”Increase sales and reduce internal costs. We offer more than reputation management or measuring; we build an experience that will delight your customers.”/>

    However, we do see that this is not the meta description that Google is indexing in a search here. Whereas Google typically uses the meta description from the metadata for indexing, this is not always the case. Google will sometimes modify or ignore the meta description when it sees fit. This is not due to the plugin not functioning as expected, but rather is due to Google using another value for the meta description it indexes as it’s algorithm has concluded that there is a better version to index. We have additional information on this here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/my-meta-descriptions-arent-showing-up-in-the-search-result-pages/. If Google is ignoring the meta description you have created for a page and creating it’s own description based off the page’s content, we would recommend creating a new meta description that reflect’s the page’s content. We have an article on how to write clean and meaningful meta description for your pages and posts by following the steps given in this guide. https://yoast.com/meta-descriptions/.

    Thread Starter mish99

    (@mish99)

    Thank you, I have updated my meta description and requested a re-index. I didn’t realise that searching for my company name would bring up the meta description for my homepage.

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