Many meta descriptions ignored by Google

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

We have recently added the meta descriptions for more than 50 pages of our website. It's been more than a week and all the pages have been indexed. But still I can see most of the pages in Google results didn't show up with recently added meta description, but the content from page like how it used to be. I wonder what's wrong with this scenario. Please guide of someone aware of this.

Thanks

[vtmoz]

Hi,

Thanks all for the answers. All pages got indexed but meta descriptions or title tags are not yet reflecting in search results. I'll give some more time. Coz can't do anything more

[Nigel_Carr]

When you say they have been indexed do you actually know that they have been recently crawled by Google? I have worked on sites where it has been 10 days to two weeks for some of the internal brand and sub category pages to be re indexed.

Take the URL and past it in to the google bar then when the listing comes up click the down arrow to the right of the domain name to see the Google cached version and check the date.

If it's still stating a date pre-update then all you have to do is wait.

There is no other reason apart from browser caching why Google should show the old version of the Meta. I agree if the Meta is poor or too long Google may decide to use a page snippet but not the old Meta.

 

[KevinBudzynski]

To expand on what Alick300 stated, typically if the meta description is relevant, and includes the search query that the visitor is googling, it will show up in the snippet. If the meta description does not contain the keyword, they will grab a snippet of on-page content that includes it.

[Alick300]

Hi,

It does not necessarily use the meta description in the SERPs if it thinks other text on the page is more relevant to what the user has searched for.

Thanks