%excerpt% => MetaDescription not showing in source-code

#45924
  • Resolved Michael Pucher

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi,

    on a client site (that’s not SEO-optimized) up to now, I have set the meta-descriptions to “excerpt” (see screenshot 1). I would expect Google to use the first (one of the first) sentences on the page.

    When viewing the live page AND looking for the same page in Google-SERPS, I find out, that Google uses exactly what I had expected => the first sentence of the content => everything’s fine! (see screenshot 2).

    The Problem
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    Our SEO Tool (https://pagerangers.com) says that there is NO META DESCRIPTION. After checking this with the source code of the page, there is indeed no meta description visible: https://schmid-erdbau.at/erdbau/gartenanlage/ (see screenshot 3)

    I have done a test and have written on this exact page a manual meta description in the rank math backend and saved that page. After this I could find a meta description in the source code.

    Why?
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    Why do Google SERP’s show the correct automatic meta description THOUGH there is none visible in the source code? Does this %excerpt%-setting have a negative effect on SEO rankings?

    Thanks and best regards
    Michael

    Here is the download-link for the screenshots:
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    http://download.beziehungsweise.cc/_cwp15SstdpQt1R

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  • Michael Davis

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    This is certainly very odd. I could not get the webpage to resolve on my end, do you have some country specific restrictions?

    Please note that search engines will pick up any indexed text on the page by default depending on the search term even when a meta description has not been set.

    Could you please resave any of the other affected pages without adding a manual description and let us know if the description tag will be added?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    RankBot

    4 years, 7 months ago

    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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