Title Tags & Meta descriptions do not update
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Hi,
I have a question about the title tags and meta descriptions of my domain b-buildingbusiness.com. I've updated them about 5 days ago but the new versions don't show in the search engines. However it does show when you check with the facebook developers tool https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fb-buildingbusiness.com%2F . Does anyone have an idea why they're not updated in the search engines and how I can resolve this?
Best,
Rik
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Thanks for the tips Tymen and Tim. I see that Google indeed sometimes uses my new title tags and meta descriptions depending on the search terms (but not as much as I'd like). I have re-crawled my website Tim. I hope it helps.
Best,
Rik
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Hi Rik,
As per Tymens response and the excellent post from Dr Pete. I would also suggest re-crawling your site in Google's search console, this may help to get your new content indexed that little bit quicker.
Cheers
Tim
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Hi Rik,
This may take a bit longer to index. Also Google shows differerent metadescription for the same page based on the keywords used in the search query. A good article on metadescriptions is here on Moz.
Hope it helps,
Regards, Tymen
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