Website Description In Google Results Options

[mrgoodfox]

Hey everyone, haven't been on the forum for a while. Good to be back.

The description of my site on Google listing (5th listing) is not the same as the Meta Description i've listed on the site.

Why is that? How can I fix it?

Thanks

[bwelford]

The description is a good start, mrgoodfox, but as Google explains, the snippet in a SERP is produced by an algorithm and may differ from the description.

The exact snippet in any case will be influenced by the keywords the searcher used. You may not be able to influence what actually appears in any given case.

[RisaBB]

Hello Mr. Goodfox,

Nice looking site!

I don't think you are using the meta description tag the way it is intended. If you look at your result in Google, as well as all the others, you will see that they are written in sentence format - the way an ad should appear.

If you look at your meta description info, you wrote it like a meta keyword tag - you listed about 15 single and 2-word phrases, separated by a comma.

I think if you re-wrote your meta description into 2 complete sentences, you'll have a better chance of getting it to show up.

Risa

[mrgoodfox]

Thank you guys. I made that change. Hopefully it will fix it.