Search engine not showing the correct Meta Descriptions for my website

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  • Resolved Hasan Jamal
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    Even though I have used rankmath before and I am quite well versed with its use, I am unable to fix this problem.

    My website is not showing the correct meta data on search engines. Data on the footer is being shown as Meta Descriptions. What should I do?

    I have tried everything. The Meta Data is correctly shown in the source code though. Please help!

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  • Hello,

    I’m sorry to hear that you’re facing issues with the meta descriptions of your website not displaying correctly on search engines. It seems like you’ve already checked the meta data in the source code and it’s correct there.

    Since you’ve mentioned that you’re well-versed with Rank Math, I recommend following these steps to troubleshoot the issue further:

    1. Check What You Have Set Using Rank Math: Ensure that you have correctly set the SEO Meta Title & Description using Rank Math. You can refer to this guide for instructions: Editing Meta Title and Description using Rank Math.

    2. Ensure Your Schema Settings Are Valid: Verify that the settings in Rank Math’s Schema tab for the post or page are correct. The Headline should show %seo_title% and the Description should show %seo_description%. This ensures that your SEO title and description are used for structured data. You can refer to this image for guidance: Schema Settings Meta Description Title.

    3. Check the Title/Description Set in the Page’s Source Code: Double-check if the title/description is correctly set up in the page’s source code. You can view the page source by right-clicking on your page and selecting View page source. Alternatively, you can use an online tool like HeyMeta to check this.

    If after following these steps, the issue persists, it might be due to Google’s algorithm choosing alternative text from your page. In such cases, Google might prefer other content over the provided meta description based on relevance and user intent.

    If you need further assistance, please feel free to reply here, and a human agent from our support team will take over the ticket to assist you promptly.

    Thank you for reaching out to us!

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

    Hello,

    Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.

    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.

    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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