Snippet Description not correct

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  • Resolved Harry Heijligers
    Rank Math free

    Hi,

    There are two blogpost I have for which the snippet description in Rank Math are totally different than what Google is displaying.

    I can share screenshots, if you tell me how to enclose them.

    Cheers, Harry

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  • Danial
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

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

    You can add them in the Sensitive Data section in this ticket.

    ​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:



    ​2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Rich Snippets are enabled on your website:


    ​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:

    ​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.

    For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:
    a.

    b.

    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,

    ​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.

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Thank you for following up.

    I’ve checked your site, and it seems that your description is already set as well in the page’s source. You can also check your post’s URL at this link https://www.heymeta.com/

    In this case, you will need to give Google some time to re-crawl and re-index the page with the new meta description.

    I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

    But in Google’s cache I can see that the page already has been re-crawled?

    Danial
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Looking through your source code and https://www.heymeta.com/ again, I see that everything is appearing correctly.

    As my colleague has informed earlier on, Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info and shows 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 keyword.

    I hope this resolves your issue.

    Can you please tell me what you mean in this case with “optimize your meta tags to try and match the keyword”?
    How can I do this? Do you have maybe a reference guide of some sort to help understand what you mean?

    Hello,

    Thank you for following up.

    You can read more about it in this Link.

    I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

    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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