Meta description not showing on Google Search

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

1. First of all, 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 the Schema Markup module is 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:

You 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:
a.
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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, then you just have to wait it out and there is no further input needed from your end.

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.

Here are some of the common reasons Google might not use the meta description you provided:
– The meta description is not relevant or useful (ie, just a collection of keywords).
– The exact same meta description is provided across a large number of pages.
– The meta description doesn’t match what the user is searching for, but other content on the page does.

There is a whole article dedicated to this on SearchEngineJournal:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-offers-suggestions-for-avoiding-meta-description-rewrites/359884/

Here is an example showing Google changes title depending on the keyword used:

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The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

That should fix the issue. Please let me know if that does not. We are here to assist you.

Thank you.

Hello,

I checked the Schema markup on your page, it is valid and your page is already passing the Rich Snippet Test.

Google shows the star ratings when it thinks the Schema and ratings are relevant to the search term.

It is ultimately Google’s decision if they want to include ratings with your website or not.

Also, the page was last crawled on 6 September:

I’ll suggest you wait for some time and let Google crawl your website.

I hope this helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Since the meta description is already set properly in the source of the posts, we can suggest you wait until Google crawls these pages again and see if that fixes the issue.

Also, could you please check the coverage report under your Google Search Console account to see if there are any errors shown, that might be causing the issue?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Thank you.