“SEO Desc” wrong in dashboard, but correct in SERP and source code

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  • Resolved Eddy

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    In my WP dashboard, like 98% of the descriptions in the “SEO Desc” column list the generic/default Homepage Meta Description / Single Post Description text (i.e. “Our great site is blahblahblah”). But when I edit a post, I see that it has the correct meta-description, and the page’s source-code also shows the correct description, and the real-world SERP results also show the correct description. But the dashboard results are consistently wrong, which is confusing and a bit disruptive. How can I fix that?

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  • Prabhat

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and we regret the inconvenience caused.

    In the post/page/CPT list, the SEO title/description columns show exactly what you’ve used in those fields.

    Let’s say you’ve set the SEO Description as the excerpt, then in the SEO Desc column, %excerpt% would be shown.

    Since on the list pages, the columns are quite packed together, we follow this approach.

    However, if you’re getting something entirely different, then could you please share a screenshot using a tool like imgur.com so that we can understand the insights of the issue?

    Looking forward to hearing back from you.

    Thank you.

    Eddy

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi there, I just added %excerpt% to the posts that were displaying incorrectly, and that seems to work. I still don’t know why they were taking the generic snippet from the Homepage Meta Description / Single Post Description, and perhaps I’ll never know, but as long as it’s working now then it’s all good. – Thx

    Prabhat

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    We’re glad that you got that sorted.

    If you have another question in the future, please feel free to reach out, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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