How to make site content appear in the site description when searching by google

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  rachelolanoff · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 1:53 pm

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  Dear WordPress community,

  Our COMDEKs website still appears as the first hit when googling “COMDEKS.” However, no site description is provided/no content of the website is automatically shared in the description space. It appears this is because we have a robot file:

  http://comdeksproject.com/robots.txt
  # This file was generated on Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:55:57 +0000
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /

  How can we get rid of this so that site description for the website automatically appears when searching on google?

  Best,
  Rachel

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 2:04 pm

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  Do you mean the description which is displayed as part of your header image? Easy: take it out of the header image, because Google does not really read images. Put it in the Tagline for the website.

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  rachelolanoff · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 2:23 pm

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  Dear raincoaster,

  Thank you very much for your quick reply. I’m not the one directly managing the content for the website, just the blog, but I suppose there is a setting then to adjust the tagline for the website on wordpress.com?

  I just want to correct this when searching in google with “COMDEKs”

  COMDEKS website
  comdeksproject.com/
  A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt – learn more.
  You’ve visited this page many times. Last visit: 7/2/14

  I was told by removing the robot.txt, content from the site would automatically appear (perhaps a few sentences or so) as a description…I am just wondering how to do that but if there is way to do that manually such as adding a tagline feel free to let me know..thanks!!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 2:45 pm

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  On the Settings->Reading page of your dashboard, do you have it set to allow indexing by search engines?

  You can add the tagline on the Settings->General page, and I believe in most themes you can click to have it hidden rather than displayed. That option might be on the Header page of the dashboard.