title or meta description is not showing

#159612
  • Resolved Shahmir Fakhimi
    Rank Math free

    Greetings
    I’ve tried to solve my issue from previous posts, and i tried all suggested solutions but unfortunately i could not able to solve the problem.

    Actually recently i have faced vague issue regarding website title and meta description which is not showing in search engines.

    As i test via heymeta, seems everything looks fine and i see my website title and description.

    The other issue I’ve faced in google search condole is site map error ( Your Sitemap does not contain any URLs. Please validate and resubmit your Sitemap.) but as i looked into the site may everything is correct.

    I am wondering may be the issue is related to site map or as recently i have changed domain name servers to cloudflare.

    I am appreciate your kind support.
    Thank you

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  • Anas
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.

    I have tried accessing your site but it’s resulting in a 403 error.
    error

    Please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
    a. cache
    b. cached

    If the cache date is from before adding the new meta description, then you just have to wait for Google to re-crawl and re-index the page with the new info. If the date is after you made the changes, then you just have to wait it out and there is no further input needed from your end.

    Do note that if everything’s fine and Google still decides to show a different meta title/description for your search keyword, there is nothing you can do as Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and show something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

    Here are some of the common reasons Google might not use the meta description you provided:
    The meta description is not relevant or useful (ie, just a collection of keywords).
    The exact same meta description is provided across a large number of pages.
    The meta description doesn’t match what the user is searching for, but other content on the page does.

    There is a whole article dedicated to this on SearchEngineJournal:
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-offers-suggestions-for-avoiding-meta-description-rewrites/359884/

    Here is an example showing Google changes title depending on the keyword used:
    description
    &
    description 2

    The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

    For your sitemap:
    I have validated your sitemap with https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html and it got validated successfully.
    sitemap

    Please flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    Once done, re-submit the sitemap_index.xml in Search Console and wait for Google to crawl the sitemap.

    Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.

    Dear Anas
    Many thanks for your kind reply.

    Sorry that you were not able to access the website, I have removed the restriction and you should have access now.

    Kindly please note that, the issue with Meta and description is not only with google and i have faced this issue with all search engine such as Yahoo and Bing.
    But the good news is at least in other search engine user is able to see website content instead of meta and descriptions , but in google even website content is not visible in search results 🙁

    Regarding meta title and description, i had not problem for the years, and it’s something news, and also all the meta tags are exactly related to page content.
    I also as a test changed the meta tag for the home page like 10 days ago.
    Please consider that as the site has 2 language, so if the issue related to the meta content, it should not happened for both language.

    Regarding site map:
    I have done all the steps to flush the site map cache, and submit it again, but i got the same error
    https://filebin.net/xxjhc21tctgnrfex

    Thank you in advance
    Cheers

    Hello,

    Thank you for that additional information.

    I’ve also checked your site using Heymeta, and it seems that the meta title and description are already set. Your sitemap seems to be fine as well and getting updated.

    In this case, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
    Sensitive Data Section

    It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

    You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

    Thank you, and we really look forward to helping you.

    Greetings
    As I had concern about Cloud flare, so i removed cloud flare’s DNS from domain, and restore the domain to it’s original name servers. the problem for both site map and meta has been solved, but the question is why with cloud flare search engines are not able to read meta and sitemap which created with rankmath.

    Thank you

    Prabhat
    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    We’re really happy that you got that sorted.

    Regarding your question, Cloudflare is a caching plugin, and caching is one of the easiest and effective ways to speed up your website. Caching plugins create an image of your website to load the website and its resources faster.

    However, this usually leads to a problem. When caching is enabled, the sitemap of your website ends up being cached as well, which is the opposite of what should happen. Since a sitemap should always be up to date with the pages, posts, and custom posts on your website, caching it defeats the purpose.

    That is the reason why we suggest users add the Rank Math’s sitemaps in the exclude list of their caching plugin.

    Please let me know if that answers your question or if any extra detail might be helpful.

    Thanks!

    Many thanks for your kind reply.

    I purged all the cache from cloud flare and even after purged cache i had issue.
    I agree with you sometimes caching issue can affect to the sitemap , but my issue as explained was:
    -Meta tag and description
    -Site map error ( Your Sitemap does not contain any URLs. Please validate and resubmit your Sitemap.)
    I believe it’s not related to cache matters.
    Any idea?

    thanks

    Hi there,

    Meta tags and descriptions are correctly added to your site when we check for example here https://seositecheckup.com/seo-audit/parsgps.com or here https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?url=https%3A%2F%2Fparsgps.com%2F&user_agent=2

    Also your sitemap contains URLs https://parsgps.com/sitemap_index.xml in it.
    Are you still getting this errors and where during which process?

    If you are check with cloudflare support on why your getting the errors as its the cause.
    Thanks.

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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