I think i am having some critical meta tag issue in my website. When i search my website in google, In the search result, Website title and name showing correct information but in place of description some other content is showing which is not the meta description content but some parts of the content of my website's home page. My website is developed in PHP-based opensource opencart.
i searched a lot to resolve it but still i got no solution. I have no previous experience in seo that makes me estimate something without sufficient information to be sure where the error is. If anyone helps me out here that would be really great. I attached an screenshot for better understanding.
Firstly, ensure that you are following the structure which is shown in https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en
This means that your tag should look like this:
<meta name="description" content="A description of the page" />
Something that could be causing this problem is that Google does not update descriptions automatically- so you may have to wait until they crawl your website again, for it to update (you could use the Google Webmaster systems to encourage this).
Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search
results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate
description than would be possible purely from the on-page content
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?rd=1
google only sometimes uses your meta description. Other times, it uses page content.
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When I search my site in the google search, my site shows up in the first place but, it is showing my site has been hacked, It's been 2 months and still it is showing the same message when I google it . my site is built in PHP.
I know a little bit of technical stuff because I am a beginner in developing , I tried to find out and I checked in the Title, Meta, Image descriptions tags and page title and page description but did not see any difference in my text. Even my technical team could not figure it out.
I am so stressed out please help me guys. I have attached a picture on how it is showing in the google search.
Search for site may be hacked keyword in database and Also if you are using any CMS then update to latest version so updated version contain latest valunerability fixes.
Dont use any nulled version plugin becasue that might contain malicious code which is encrypted in base64 or eval. and you can submit your website to google for review so they can remove site may be hacked if site is clean.
As per you that Hacked content not there in viewsouce then you can submit to Google for review.Within 72 hours they will replay.
you can follow below link to submit your website to Google so they can review and remove site may be hacked in Google search result
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
If you try sharing via Google+ most of the articles on this WordPress site: appgo2market.com
you'll noticed that title when Google+ is wrong when trying to share.
This happens also if you cut and paste link to a post on your personal Google+ account for sharing.
I didn't see yet, any relation to what may need to be done on a WordPress site to solve this.
Any idea what needs to be done, on a WordPress site, using thesis2, to solve this?
Looks like many of the pages are behind a "become a member" section, which is the title I see being picked up. The title for the share can be controlled by adding schema.org markup, or by changing the title tag of the page. Take a look at this page for more details: https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/
We just made a re-design of the company I work with of the company wordpress blog to make it more SEO friendly, improving all we could. However I still have an issue with the Google+ share button you can see we have 2 sets of social buttons 3 in the header (facebook, google+ and twitter) these are to share the site and 3 buttons at the end of the post next to "Did you enjoy this article? Share it!" to share the article.
When clicking the "G+ share" button the snippet plug-in is not using the metadata of the site like the title and description:
And in the documentation it says that's all I need, because I'm using the Open Graph protocol, but when I test it this is the result, which is not using the information set in the metadata:
https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://blog.voicebunny.com/2013/02/21/how-voicebunny-gets-professional-voice-overs-so-fast/
And the last thing I'm totally lost is when testing with the rich-snippets tool everything looks fine:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.voicebunny.com%2F2013%2F02%2F21%2Fhow-voicebunny-gets-professional-voice-overs-so-fast%2F&html=
Any idea how to fix the snippet? Thanks in advance.
To clearly document an apparent solution:
Putting a data-href tag as part of the that explicitly points to the page would make it clear where the metadata should be pulled from. Although there are other ways it can get this data (the cannonical link, for example), making it explicit as part of the button is best.
Not entirely sure, but I think you also have to update (or remove?) the itemprop meta at the beginning of your template:
<meta itemprop="name" content="The Carrot Chronicle">
<meta itemprop="description" content="The Official Blog of Mr. VoiceBunny">
I have an issue in my website. Looking up my site in search engines, and viewing the cached version of the index page, shows only the header and footer of the page. Everything in between is omitted. This issue is apparent only in the index page. Other pages on the site are fine.
Here is the cached page
Here's a direct link to the page.
Things to note:
This issue does not seem to happen in Google search only, but also
Bing and Yahoo.
In Google cache, it's possible to display the text-only version of
the page, which seems to SHOW the page just fine, including the omitted content but without style.
In google webmaster tools, the page preview of the index page does
not have this issue. It shows it just fine.
The index page is using a jquery plugin to display the car brands,
and it allows for sorting based on region/country. I don't know if
this is the culprit.
My site is in Arabic. Sorry if you don't understand anything .-.
I think Google seems to have trouble parsing your document. You have 2 sets of <html></html> tags in your document, which could lead the Google engine to confusion and errors.
I would strongly recommend you to fix your HTML errors using W3 Validator, this will probably allow Google to parse your document without errors.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrkabat.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
If I insert in my wall a link like this:
http://blog.bonsai.tv/news/il-nuovo-vezzo-della-lega-nord-favorire-i-lombardi-alluniversita/
then facebook extract the image in the post and not the first image in the webpage ( not image logo or other little images for example ) !!
How facebook does that ?
Hm, impossible to say without more information about the algorithm they use.
However, from looking at the page's source code you can see that while the image of Bossi is not the first image in the page, it's the first inside the divs "page_content" and "post_content". Maybe Facebooks knows the HTML IDs that the blogging system (Wordpress in this case) uses, and uses these to find the first image that is actually part of the page content.
That would actually be a good idea, and is essentially an implementation of the "semantic web"...
As others have said, we have no idea how Facebook decides what to choose in the absence of any relevant metadata (though Sleske's guesses seem reasonable; I'd also guess that they look at the first big image), but you can avoid that by going the correct route and simply giving facebook (and similar services) addiotnal metadata about your page by using Open Graph Protocol tags, for example if you want to specify a particular image to use for a facebook like, you'd include this in your head tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="<your image URL>" />
OGP is also used by LinkedIn, Google+ and many others.
If you're in Wordpress you can control these tags with an open graph plugin. Other systems can do it manually or via their own plugins.
I can imagine that the Facebook crawler can identify the actual content part, and select an image from it. Similar functionality is used by the Safari Reader functionality. It probably helps that the software used is Wordpress, which is the most popular blogging software. It's a quick win for Facebook to add specific support for this software.
My guess is facebook has built some algorithms for distinguishing the actual content from the other data in a html page. When looking at the page you provided it's quite easy since the html element that contains the page content has id="page_content" which is self-explanatory.