Hi,
Can you please check when the Google cache was updated for that page?
1. https://i.rankmath.com/9q6X0H
2. https://i.rankmath.com/R8N0Uh
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, the next step is to check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source:
3. https://i.rankmath.com/HwXR1o
You can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/
If it matches your settings, there is nothing else you can do as Google shows the title/description tag according to the search intent.
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> tag”
Also, in your case – I see you have both www and non-www versions of your website indexed which might be causing this problem. Please redirect one to the other.
Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Thanks, Todd, for your tips.
Done first…
Done second… Note here – Google/Bing picks up my Title, only the description is disregarded. A clue here?
If any, third could be a problem, BUT could you please elaborate where you see them both being indexed? My sitemap contains only the non-www address. Plus, if I enter the www or no-www in a browser, both lead to non-www of my site already. (I tried reading Rankmath tutorial, but redirect option seems missing on my console. Old tutorial maybe?..)
This made me think of something else though – every time I add the permalink of the page in “Preview Snippet Editor’s” section “Permalink”(why is it there anyway?) for some reason it gets changed to https-xxxx-xx. Why it does so and could that be causing google/bing to break? (Even though on my page source I see permalinks of my page as https://xxx.xx until <script type=”application/ld+json”> where it turns to https:\/\/xxx.xx …)
I wandered in the wild and searched in the file manager for some “robots.txt” file clashes and found only “robots.txt.latte” with such content:
“{contentType text}
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: {$config->baseUrl}/sitemap.xml”
No issue here?
Thanks in advance!
Btw HEY META shows everything tip-top!… When sharing on social networks, they pick my card up with description smooth as butter… It is only the search engines and only the description. The description is in line with the business niche, two of my keywords are included in it, so what else …
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This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by
Exso.
Hi Exco,
I just rank a search for site:www.domain.com
But, I see that it is correctly redirected to the non-www version so it is just a matter of time before the www version is removed from the index.
> for some reason it gets changed to https-xxxx-xx
Can you please share a screenshot of this?
> where it turns to https:\/\/xxx.xx …)
That is perfectly fine as the Schema code is printed differently than the other code. Every website with Schema does this. You can check any website for reference.
> found only “robots.txt.latte” with such content
You can disregard that. It was probably added by your previous sitemap plugin. Your actual robots.txt file is at domain.com/robots.txt
The sitemap is at domain.com/sitemap_index.xml
If you run a search for site:domain.com, you will notice that Google is correctly showing the same meta description that is in your page’s source and the one heymeta is showing. I have added a screenshot in the sensitive data section.
So, Google sees the information correctly – they are just choosing to ignore it for the keyword you are using to find your website. I am afraid this is beyond anyone’s control as Google doesn’t honor your meta tags sometimes and choose what they think matches the searches keyword intent. You can check the link I originally shared about this:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hi Todd,
Thank you very much for your thorough answer!!
Indeed I have tried searching with other keywords and my site comes up as expected! For some reason searching just domain.com (without “site:”) brings back the weird result… Could that be because the permalink in RankMath differs from the actual one? To explain what I mean:
My main page is domain.com nothing more. But when I edit the snippet in “Preview Snippet Editor”, the permalink section “grabs” my main page title with no way to be deleted (please see screenshot in the sensitive section). While it boosts my SEO ranking for 5%, could it be it somewhere creates a disparity that makes google to fall back on super-old snippet they had for the search of domain.com?
(Ok, disregarding the robots.txt.latte, but it is in RankMath folder – link in the sensitive section)
Many thanks!!
Hi there,
Thanks for the email.
The disparity is because the data available on Google is mostly cached and this will be updated as Google crawls your content in the coming weeks.
I hope this info helps.
Thanks, Michael, Todd already mentioned that but months go by and it is all the same – it was recrawled just a few days ago.
Could you please comment on my worry about RankMath’s automatic URL generation including page title (one added in WordPress)? (please see the screenshot in the sensitive section)?
Thank you!!!
Hi,
Those files are internally used to create your virtual robots.txt files. You do not need to worry about them.
Ok then. Thank you very very much, Todd, about all your effort and help!!
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
