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I have Rank math, ACF, and PODs
I created custom post with PODs
I added custom fields using ACF
Under Rank math Custom posts section, I can see my custom post Under “Custom post” in Rank math, I can see the “Schema types” ( I choose article)
And under Schema type, it is saying I can add ACF field into meta description I did that using the following format %customfield(field-name)% , and in each custom post, the Rank math preview shows me the output of the ACF field as it should.
The problem now is what I see in google search is not the output from that ACF field, but instead, it is an output coming from the first big text section in that post type, which is is strange because that part too is a PODs field (also a custom field), it’s not the default wordpress posts normal text area, I disabled the default post text area in that custom post I am posting.
So I wonder why it is showing some random POD custom field instead of the field I wrote, and why the Rank math preview is showing me something different than what Google search is showing
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Hello,
Thank you for getting in touch with us.
Please check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source:
https://i.rankmath.com/HwXR1oYou can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/
If it matches your settings, then you must check if Google has seen the changes already or not.
For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
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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,
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.The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.
You can read more about it here
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en
This section sheds light on that:
Why the search result title might differ from the page's <title> tagHope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.
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