I am having an issue with the meta tag description in my personal web site, when using it like that:
<meta name="description" content="my content" />
A search in Google for my homepage doesn't display the description I set but some contents of my page.
I read articles about that but I can't figure it out why this is happening.
According to google support, here is a good way to define a description of your site:
<meta name="Description" content="Author: A.N. Author,
Illustrator: P. Picture, Category: Books, Price: $17.99,
Length: 784 pages">
Is this meta content description going to be a standard ? Some kind of formated object ?
Or maybe this is my XHTML way to write tag the problem ?
Google announced a while back that it wouldn't use meta descriptions for ranking.
The meta description is sometimes used as the summary text in search results, but if Google thinks it has found a better summary on your page based on the user's search, it will use that instead.
In some situations this description is used as a part of the snippet shown in the search results
Your meta description should really match up to the page content very well, otherwise it definitely won't be shown. The example you have shown contains structured data - but there is no indication that there is a strong preference for this (i.e. it may not be relevant to all pages).
As always, the algorithms are mysterious and subject to change.
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Suppose i have article submission site
I have more than 1000 article and daily updated and added new
i have three parameter connected with article
category
tag
author
and my structure of pagination like
category wise articles
=>site.com/category/{category_name}
tag wise articles
=>site.com/tag/{tag_name}
particular author posted articles
=>site.com/{author_name}/{article}
All page show article as pagination.
How can apply pagination for above all links
Need Suggestion for
1. url structure like. ?page=number or /page/number
2. How can i avoid duplication because there is full chance.
3. any suggestion regarding html tag for seo
4. or i can improve this structure
5. and which one best url for displaying content /article/slug or any??
Just open page and - View Page Source then find line
link rel="canonical" href="http://yourwebsite/
if you have it everything will be fine.
This article can help :
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
But if you have duplicate content from other sites you must add line :
META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"
Currently Google displays elements in the result excerpts that belongs to the functional part of the site. Is there a way to exclude these elements to get crawled/displayed in google?
Like eEdit, eDelete, etc in the example above.
To exclude the pages from Google's index, block them using the Robots.txt file or if it is just the content then use the "rel="nofollow" tag.
Hope this helps.
Update on my particular situation here: I just found out that the frontend code has been generated in a way where the title and the description meta was identical.
Google is smart enough to expect that if a copy is already displayed in the title of the search result there's no reason to add in to the excerpt as well, instead looks for content - believed to be valuable - from the actual page.
Lessons learned:
there's no way to hide elements from google but keep it visible for your users
if you'd like to have control over the content displayed in google searches, avoid using the same copy in your title and description
I have developed this website
thereelthing.com.sg/
how ever after 3 week which i have updated the meta tags in my website, this meta tag is does not appear the same on google search!!
( http://thereelthing.com.sg/ )
Search Reasult:
Clients | The reel Thing
http://thereelthing.com.sg/clients/The Reel Thing, Video Company, thereelthing.com.sg , mandanemedia.com.
Search link (on page 3)!
https://www.google.com/
search for : the reel thing sg
Do u know is there any way i could update the Google search result more faster?
Your site has a page rank of 0, google won't be indexing that very often. Have you set up google webmaster tools for it and do you have a xml site map?
Your title tags don't explain much about each page and your meta descriptions are all identical and full of content that is not relevant (repeated domain names?).
I would not be surprised if Google decided to ignore them in most cases and make up their own text. They do that.
When you update your meta tags, you need to re-index your web page. Try with social bookmarking and blogs to cache again by search engine robots.
Make backlinks with new meta keywords to get fast and accurate results. New meta tags will be affected whenever your web page is re-indexed.
On Google, results are displayed with the meta description tag on one line, the description on the next, and the URL on the last.
How many characters of the meta description does Google display? I always thought it was around 150 or 160.
Meta description tag provides short information on webpage as a summary. Meta description will not appear in web page but it display in Search Result Pages. Google search engine give much important to Meta Description Tag to display in search result pages, but yahoo and other related search engines give somewhat different important to meta description tag, so you should not neglect it altogether.
Meta Description Tag Length is not the number of words that count. It’s actually the number of characters length. Because, Google will cut off anything more than 155(roughly) characters. Optimizing for in the description and try to limit its length to 25-30 words. Also try to use no more than two sentences.
hi all i want to know that whether google look inside meta tag.
Google does not use the keywords meta tag. See this posting on the Google blog.
It does use the description meta tag, to provide the page snippet in its results if it can't generate a useful snippet from the page content.
There are also some specific Google-supported meta tags documented here.