Meta tags
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Hello,
Does anyone know how long it takes for the meta descriptions to show up in Google?
This because I just updated my meta descriptions for the whole website, but while moz toolbar is showing it correctly, google is still showing the old ones, even if i used the see as googlebot tool from webmaster tools.
Thanks for a reply
Eugenio | Social Engagement -
Use the Yoast SEO plugin and focus on making your descriptions relevant with a bit of a call to action and you should be OK
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Thanks
It means that after all the code changes in order to show the metatags properly (in wordpress its all a mess!) Google will not take it into account? Would then it be better to work on rich snippets?
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Keep in mind that Google may deviate from the descriptions that you put in the description meta tag based on what it determines is best for relevancy.
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thanks all!
You helped a lot! As I already did, and will keep doing, I will follow chris reply. I thought that googlebot would let the website changes be displayed in the serp as well. So this means, that, if I see correct meta description in Moz Toolbar, this should be the one that google will display once the crawl is done?
I hope so
Thanks againEugenio | Social Engagement
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Google will crawl your site at an interval it sees fit based on the authority of your site and the dynamics of your content. Sites with high authority and constant changes like this one are crawled constantly, while new sites may only be crawled once every month or more--even if you submit it to google. The crawl rate choice in GWT pertains to how quickly Google will go through your site at each crawl--if the crawl rate is increased, it can bog down some web servers but it will not decrease the interval between crawls as you're hoping.
At this point, be sure you have the meta tags as you want them and continue work on your other on-page issues and work on building your authority by social networking, creating content, authorship, and back links. There's not much that happens quickly in SEO.
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Just as a side note,
From what i understand Google doesn't have to show your custom written meta descriptions, if it see's some text on the page it thinks is more relevant to the general page topic, it may just display that instead anyway
Hope this helps
James
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This depends on the site crawl - how big the site is, how often are the pages been crawled
However, what you can do is
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Go to Webmaster, fetch as Google and submit Url and all linked pages
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For temporary faster crawl - you can also increase the crawl rate
As per Webmaster - "Our goal is to crawl as many pages from your site as we can without overwhelming your server's bandwidth. You can change the crawl rate (the speed of Google's requests during the crawl) for sites at the root or subdomain level - for example,__**www.example.com **and **http://subdomain.example.com. **The new custom crawl rate will be valid for 90 days"
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