Meta Description shown on Google differs from the one set

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with the meta description on your website. It’s not uncommon for Google to display a different meta description than what you’ve set in the Rank Math SEO plugin. Here are some steps you can take to understand and potentially resolve this issue:

1. Check What You Have Set Using Rank Math: Ensure that the meta description you set in Rank Math is correctly configured. You can refer to the following guide on how to check your settings:

   • Editing Meta Title and Description using Classic Editor
   • Editing Meta Title and Description in Gutenberg

   
   

2. Check the Title/Description Set in the Page’s Source Code: Right-click on your page and select "View page source" to ensure that the meta description is correctly reflected in the HTML source code of your page. You can also use an online tool like HeyMeta to check this.

   

3. Ensure Your Schema Settings Are Valid: Make sure that your schema settings in Rank Math are correctly configured to use the SEO title and description you have set.

   

4. The Latest Version of Your Page Hasn’t Been Indexed: Check if Google has indexed the latest version of your page. You can do this by entering `cache:https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/ into your search bar. If the cache date is from before you made changes, you may need to wait for Google to re-crawl your page.

   

5. Understand Google’s Discretion: Ultimately, Google may choose to display a different description based on what it believes is more relevant to the search query. This is a common occurrence, and there is little that can be done to enforce the display of your custom meta description.

If you’ve gone through these steps and still have concerns, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from our support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern, and we’re here to help!

Sources:
Google Shows A Different Meta Title/Description For My Site » Rank Math
Google Shows A Different Meta Title/Description For My Site » Rank Math

Hello,

The description is already set for your homepage.

You can verify the title and description of your page by using these tools to ensure that they are already set:
https://heymeta.com
https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/

If they are already set in the page’s source code, please note that 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/

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

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:

https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/

Please check the KB and you will understand the reasons Google does this.

Google has made some changes to their algorithm which automatically changes the titles, discarding the one you have set in your SEO title meta tag. This happens regardless of the SEO plugin you are using. We have covered this Google update here:

https://rankmath.com/google-update/google-title-rewrite-update/

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.