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Hello there, I want to edit the meta description of my website. I’m using a static front page, so I put in the needed data in the specific front page single site, but the meta description doesn’t show up on google search results. Can you take a look at it?
thanks in advance
Best regards
Sven
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Thanks for getting in touch with us.
1. First of all, I am assuming that you have already changed the SEO Meta Title and Meta Description with the help of Rank Math:
Add a Meta Description in Classic Editor:Add title and description in Gutenberg:
2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Rich Snippets are enabled on your website:
To reiterate, the Schema title must show %seo_title% and the description should show %seo_description% – this will ensure your SEO title and SEO Description that you set up via Rank Math can also be used for your schema details:
3. The next step is to 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/
4. 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. Thank you.
Thanks for the very detailed answer, it helped me! According to Hey Meta, all descriptions are correct, only on Google they have not yet been updated, the current status here is August 8th.
It also irritated me that the Rank Math SEO analysis shows that the meta and page description are missing.
Here you can see a picture of it: https://ibb.co/7ygPvCy
Could it have something to do with the fact that I am using the Nimble Builder?
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