WooCommerce Homepage meta description not showing on Google

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  • Resolved kamrafique
    Rank Math free

    Hi.

    I have homepage meta description set up about 2-3 weeks ago using your plugin and Google just cached the page yesterday but the site description is not displayed in Google search results.

    Please can you advise?

    Thanks.

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  • Alberto
    Rank Math business

    ​Hello,

    Thank you for getting in touch with us.

    I will share with you a short guide we usually recommend for these situations, but if after that you still have issues, just let us know.

    ​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.

    Thanks. My settings matched yours.
    I think it must be the query so this is with google not with RM.
    I’ll keep an eye out for various queries and update here if needed.

    Hello,

    Sure, you can continue over here if you need any further assistance.

    We are here to help.

    Thank you.

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