Meta Description Indexing Issue on Google – Potential Conflict with Avada

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  • Resolved Wakesquare

    2 months ago

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    Hello Rank Math team,

    I’m reaching out regarding an ongoing issue with my website, that has been affecting me for over a year. My site uses the Avada theme along with the Rank Math plugin for SEO management. Despite carefully setting up meta descriptions in Rank Math, Google is disregarding them and instead displaying irrelevant excerpts from my site that do not reflect the intended information.

    Problem Details
    Alternative Descriptions: Google appears to ignore the well-formulated descriptions I’ve configured, instead pulling phrases that are not present on the page itself but originate from certain popup elements. These popups include the data-no-snippet attribute, which should prevent them from being used for indexing purposes.
    Potential Conflict with Avada: During my research, I’ve come across similar cases reported by Avada users experiencing comparable issues. Even after disabling Open Graph tags and other theme settings that might overlap with Rank Math, no improvement has been noted. Moreover, there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward option to completely disable Avada’s SEO panel, so I suspect there may be a persistent, underlying conflict.
    Clean Source Code: I’ve reviewed the source code of my homepage, and it seems that Rank Math is correctly adding the meta descriptions without any obvious duplication. Despite this, Google continues to ignore them and display irrelevant content instead.
    Current Situation
    After over a year of trying to resolve this, and even reaching out to your support in the past without success, I’m increasingly frustrated. It’s unreasonable that Google continues to overlook well-structured descriptions for my website, undermining all the efforts I’m putting into growing my business and online visibility. I strongly believe this may be due to an error, bug, or compatibility issue between Rank Math and Avada that I’ve been unable to identify.

    Request for Assistance
    I kindly ask that you seriously consider this case and carefully review the source code of my homepage (sensitive data) to determine if there is any anomaly, conflict, or hidden setting impacting the proper handling of meta descriptions. Resolving this issue is extremely important to me, as it would allow me to finally present a coherent and optimized presence on Google.

    Thank you very much for your attention and any concrete support you can provide. I hope you can help me find a definitive solution.

    Best regards,
    Federico

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  • Ike

    2 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

    We checked using the site: SERPs function and function that Google shows the same information on your site as the SEO description:
    https://imgur.com/ZFMhmyS
    https://imgur.com/deESclA

    That aside please note that Google can choose to display a different title and description. It is a pretty common thing with Google these days. It happens with 70% of the results and we even have a KB dedicated to this problem and a few solutions we recommend:

    Please check the KB and you will understand the reasons Google does this:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/

    We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.

    Thanks

    Wakesquare

    1 month, 4 weeks ago

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    Hello Rank Math Support,

    Thank you for addressing my issue. I appreciate the guidance and resources you provided. However, I’d like to clarify an important point: although the correct meta descriptions appear when I use the “site
    .com” query, they are not consistently displayed in standard navigational searches for “wakesquare.com.”

    In direct navigational searches for my site’s URL (without the site: operator), Google does not always display the descriptions set up in Rank Math. Instead, it often shows unrelated text snippets from other parts of the page that don’t accurately describe the content and may negatively impact my click-through rate. I’ve also applied the “data-nosnippet” attribute to certain elements, yet Google continues to select them in navigational searches, which is quite frustrating.

    Could you provide any advice on additional settings or strategies within Rank Math or the site structure to ensure Google displays the correct meta descriptions in all types of searches? This issue has persisted for a while and is critical for my site’s growth, so any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I’d like to emphasize that I’m not using duplicate meta descriptions—each one is unique, original, and within the character limit.

    Thank you for your support and understanding.

    Reinelle

    1 month, 4 weeks ago

    Hello,

    That’s something that affects pretty much every site. Google might show a different description depending on the search parameters used during the search.

    Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and shows something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

    Here’s a link for more information:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/#meta-description-rewrites

    In this case, the best you can do is optimize your meta title and description to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

    You may also refer to this article:
    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-offers-suggestions-for-avoiding-meta-description-rewrites/359884/#close

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Wakesquare

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

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    Hi, I completely understand what you’re saying, but I find it really frustrating that, despite using natural, well-optimized meta descriptions, Google keeps ignoring them and instead pulls in text that includes tags like “nosnippet,” which should actually prevent it from being shown.

    I’ve followed all best practices, so I’m increasingly convinced this might be a system error.

    Jaideep Asrani

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hello,

    Our plugin is adding the correct description to the site. If Google is choosing to display a different description, there is not much we can do to help. The only solution is to change the description and see if Google decides to use it.

    Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Wakesquare

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

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    I understand that this issue doesn’t seem related to your plugin and that the source code appears correct. However, I find it odd that the problem is consistent across all pages and articles, even though I don’t have duplicate descriptions. For most articles and pages, I use the dynamic excerpt tag.

    I believe it’s possible that Google’s crawler may be having trouble due to some issue on the code or server side. As far as it might fall within your expertise, do you have any clear insights on whether certain Cloudflare settings could be preventing proper site crawling?

    Miguel

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hello,

    If there were any issues with Google seeing the correct meta description it would not show the correct one with the site operator.

    As mentioned previously, this is because Google doesn’t think that the current meta description matches the search intent of the search term you are using to get those results.

    Thank you.

    RankBot

    3 weeks, 3 days 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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