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[Absinth69]

Hi all,

I just checked our website this morning www.edenholmevilla.co.uk and i'm seeing some strange things happening:

1. Our Title has changed to something different thats on our site (interesting)
2. Our description is not the same as in our HTML
3. the link underneath the decription does not show up anymore

Anyone seeing anything different??

Ab

[Black_Knight]

I'm not quite sure what you are asking. From what you have said in your post, it sounds as though your site itself has changed (i.e. the HTML of your page) but naturally the fact that you've posted this in the Google forum leads me to suspect that you may mean not that your title has changed, as you stated, but that the title appearing in Google's SERPs has changed. Could you perhaps confirm, and if it is about Google SERPs, tell us what exact search query you used so that we can see the same SERP.

2. Our description is not the same as in our HTML

Google does not traditionally use the meta-tag description provided, but instead picks a snippet of content from your actual page text to display. It has done this for many years.

[Respree]

Google does not traditionally use the meta-tag description provided, but instead picks a snippet of content from your actual page text to display.

Are there exceptions to this rule, Ammon? Google is displaying a meta description for my homepage.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=canvas+transfers
(see result #3)

[tosheroon]

As I understand it google will display the first occurence of the searched for terms as the description text, if those terms occur in your description text it will display them otherwise it will take a segment from the body.

[Black_Knight]

Yup, tosheroon pretty much has it nailed in his reply there.

If the search terms appear prominently in your description meta-tag, then Google will use that meta tag as the description, but the whole phrase is usually required to be in the description, and with prominence.

[Respree]

Thanks guys. That's what I thought. I think I got that tip here.