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brisbane web development may get more searches but I also don't rank nearly as well for it as I do for terms with freelance in it.

Most of the enquiries I get follow on from searches that contain freelance and brisbane in the query, whereas brisbane web development is the only one of about 30 keyword phrases that I've been tracking that is showing the correct description.

As far as changing over time: it's only in the last month that these incorrect descriptions have shown up; everything's been fine up until now.

Robert, if you do a search for freelance web design brisbane (result is on the first page for me in google.com.au), you'll see the sort of thing I'm referring to. This is what's coming up for most of the keywords I'm tracking for my site.

If you do a search for brisbane web development (result on page 9 although a few days ago it was page 15), you'll see the snippet saying what my meta description tag for the home page says, i.e. what I want it to say.

Hi Robert, no they're definitely not site links, can verify that they're search results snippets.

Thanks, I've just done both of those.

In the last month or so, Google has started displaying a description under links to my home page in its search results that doesn't actually come from my site.

I have a meta description tag in place and for a very limited set of keywords, that description is displayed, but for the majority of results, it's displaying a description that appears on Alexa.com and a handful of other sites that seem to have copied Alexa's listing, e.g. similarsites.com.

The problem is, the description from these other sites isn't particularly descriptive and mentions a service that we no longer provide.

So my questions are:

• Why is Google doing this? Surely that's broken behaviour.
• How do I fix it?

Thanks very much for your input. I've downloaded a trial of PowerSuite to take a look.

Is there much cross over between the two tools? Or do each do certain things that the other doesn't, or better than the other does?

SEOMoz campaigns include a lot more data than can be sent via email automatically with the custom reporting feature. So what do people do to send that data to clients?

Do you not include it? Or export reports manually and send them on? Or something else?