Inappropriate meta description google search

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  givilemock · Member · Jun 17, 2015 at 7:36 pm

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  Hi, when google searched, the snippet appearing under my website name is incorrect, I have changed site title and description, but it made no difference. I have also posted a post afterwards (now deleted), which still did not solve the problem. Could you please advise?

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2015 at 9:05 pm

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  This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture and we bloggers cannot access metadata. See these for help:
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/08/02/top-5-site-title-tag-tips/
  Creating an effective blog tagline http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/22/creating-an-effective-blog-tagline/

  That being said it’s of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. What is important is keywords found in your content. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/

  WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.
  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/

  To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.

  Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

  There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.com blogs.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins and or any third party themes.
  If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install.

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 18, 2015 at 9:42 pm

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  It can also take a bit of time for search engines to update info on a web site.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2015 at 9:46 pm

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  True but what’s key here is being very careful when it comes to creating a keyword rich site title and tagline that does not exceed the character limit or else Google will choose what to display.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2015 at 9:49 pm

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  Here’s what Google is displaying from the spiders’ last crawl:
  site:mindfulperfectionist.com/

  mindful perfectionist | A mum, a wife, a friend, a career …
  mindfulperfectionist.com/
  A mum, a wife, a friend, a career woman blogging about living life as a perfectionist (by mindful perfectionist)

  Here’s the change that has not been crawled and indexed yet:
  mindful perfectionist
  A blogger…someone who is being mindful of the beautiful world surrounding us and reflecting on experiences with a quirky twist.

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  givilemock · Member · Jun 19, 2015 at 7:03 am

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  Thank you all, I am sure that my tagline is not too long as the one currently displayed in google search is longer. I have verified the website with the webmaster tools, but nothing has changed. I am really not sure what I can do next.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 22, 2015 at 2:36 pm

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  Hi there,

  In most cases, it just takes Google a little while to update their search results. I just checked and I see the change that timethief mentioned:

  mindful perfectionist
  A blogger…someone who is being mindful of the beautiful world surrounding us and reflecting on experiences with a quirky twist.

  Here’s how I see that in Google search results: https://cloudup.com/cYnw6KXjz2u

  WordPress.com notifies Google about new posts and updated on your blog, but in the end it’s up to Google to update their search results and WordPress.com can’t control how long that takes.