Moz crawl sees meta description but there are none
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I have a new site I have run a starter crawl on. The crawl came back saying some of the pages do indeed have meta descriptions. When I go to the same page and use the Moz Chrome toolbar it says they do not have meta descriptions. I also know they do not have meta descriptions. Are there any instances in which the Moz crawler would see them when they are not there?
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Problem "solved". Found out that the pages in question were timing out. So although they did not have meta descriptions the crawler, I imagine in order to not track them as missing descriptions when it doesn't know, defaults to FALSE.
Now to get working on site speeds...
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Hello Carlo, I appreciate the response. The point I was making was that there are NO meta description manually created for the site in question. So the Moz Tool bar was correct. It was the crawler that is showing there were descriptions when there were indeed NO descriptions entered for any of the content. Yet that is.
Been using Moz for years and have not seen many instances where a site is crawled and it says there are descriptions crafted when there are not or where the tools produce different results.
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Hi SBX Media,
I would not be overly concerned. There may be a slightly longer delay in the Chrome toolbar updating this data.
How can you confirm this?
If the crawl reported meta descriptions (yay!) then type the following into a Google search (without quotes)
"site:www.domain.com"
then hit search. You will be able to see whether the search engine has updated the meta descriptions-- if it has, that confirms the toolbar uses a different means of analysis-- it may just take a little bit more time.
Hope that helps,
Carlo
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