Site Description in Search Engines

Same problem. I’ve looked all over, and can’t find a solution that doesn’t involve editing my header.

I’ve entered the site meta description in the Meta Description Template box, in the Homepage tab of Titles and Metas. When I look at the page source, I see what I entered in the

<meta name="description" content="[site description]">

tag. Please help. This is making my client unhappy. ??

@anelson531, I think I found the answer.

I can’t say if it was correlation or causation, but after setting up my site in Google Webmaster Tools, then submitting a sitemap—then waiting at least 12 hours—the site description did at last show up.

Hope that helps.

Great! Thank you! I added my sitemap using the Yoast plugin.

Did you have to edit the description, etc? Thanks!

@anelson531, I just added it in the “meta description template” (which is bizarrely counterintuitively named, and is too short to show all 160 characters available): https://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpseo_titles#top#home

I recommend using https://www.wordcounter.net to make sure your description is between 140–160 characters, or Google may not accept it.

I tried putting the description in other places, then removed them, so I’m 98% sure that’s where it’s drawing it from. Again, seems to take Google a minute to put it in line, then do its crawl.