Google's indexed version of my Meta Description just text from the page. Topic is solved

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Google's indexed version of my Meta Description just text from the page.

Post by grimeyphoto » Thu May 27, 2021 10:11 pm

I have been playing with Google AMP or Structured Data plugins a little over the past few months trying to improve my SEO. When I checked Googles index "site:mysite.com", and discovered the "Title" were perfect; however, the descriptions were text pulled from the page. The site was fine a few months ago, and I didn't feel like I made changes that would have caused this.

I check another joomla site I worked on last year, and have never installed any AMP plugins. Now it too has "Meta Descriptions" made from random text on the page. On this site I have been running updates regularly as well.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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Re: Google's indexed version of my Meta Description just text from the page.

Post by pe7er » Fri May 28, 2021 7:57 pm

Yes, consider the Meta Description as just a suggestion for Google what to put on the Search Engine Result Page as description. Google itself decides about the text (text from page or from meta description).
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Re: Google's indexed version of my Meta Description just text from the page.

Post by grimeyphoto » Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:03 pm

Thanks for your reply Pe7er. It really came down to begging Google to index the site. I am not sure if installing the Google Structured Data plug-in messed up how Google indexed the page. I reinstalled the plugin and worked with the Developer Tassos to make sure I understood how to set it up properly. Google now has my site indexed the way I want it to. Google did index my "Meta Description" I put in the menu links.


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