SEO Titles and Meta Description not showing on Google

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  • Resolved sivm patel
    Rank Math free

    Google showing only my post titles, not SEO titles and meta descriptions. why?
    A meta description is in google’s hand ok…but SEO titles?
    look at to screenshot.

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  • Anas
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.

    Please check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source, you can use this tool to check: https://www.heymeta.com/

    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. cache
    b. cached

    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:
    description
    &
    description 2

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

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

    Only 1 of my post affected. all other post showing correctly.

    I’m sharing link of that posts.

    https://www.backpackergoods.com/best-hikes-in-san-diego/

    Hello,

    I’ve checked the link you have shared, and it seems that the title you have set up from Rank Math is correctly added to the page’s source code. You can also verify the same using this tool.

    However, I’ve noticed that the title you have set already exceeds the recommended title length for the search results pages. Here’s a link for more information:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/ideal-meta-title-length/

    Please also 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, which my colleague already explained above.

    I hope that helps.

    Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further 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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