Title and meta description not showing in search results

Hi, I have the same problem, but only with the meta descriptions. For every page Google doesn’t show the meta description I’ve filled in at Yoast. It contains the right keywords and de description gives a good summary of the information on the pages. It looks like Yoast doesn’t work here. But I’ll checked the pagesource and I see the right description. We also let Google crawl our whole site again, but that didn’t work.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by MR85.

We understand that Google is not showing the meta description you have set for your page, however, as this article explains, sometimes Google will create its own meta description tag for a search result.

You can also read in this article straight from Google that “Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content.” So they may use the meta description tag in search results if they feel that it’s a better description than they can get from the page content.

Thanks for your feedback, but sometimes Google will do this. For my website, every (1000+) page I’ve checked gives another metadescription in Google.

We’ve changed the site structure in june and made a lot of 301 redirects, may that effect the results? Google shows already the new urls and titles.

Please advice, thanks in advance.