Problems with Metadescription

​Thanks for getting in touch with us.

I will share with you some steps to test if the basic things are working fine, and if you check all of this and everything is fine, we will have to check it in detail:
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​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:

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​2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Rich Snippets are enabled on your website:
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​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:
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​3. The next step is to check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source:
https://i.rankmath.com/HwXR1o

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.
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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,
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​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> tag

Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Alberto.

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

If the correct meta is showing when you test on heymeta.com it means Rank math has set your data perfectly fine and it is up to google to crawl and update their cache(please check if/when your URL was cached as shown earlier). ​To quote again: please 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.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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