is the search engine description taken from 1st 2 lines of each page content?

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  laurapalmerwp · Member · Dec 7, 2014 at 8:50 pm

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  Can anyone confirm that for me?

  I’m used to having more control over what goes into this description, so would like to be able to make the first 2 lines of each page work for my client – if that is the only way to do it.

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Dec 8, 2014 at 4:53 pm

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  Hi Laura,

  It’s more accurate to say that Google typically pulls the excerpt from the ‘description’ meta property of a page.

  WordPress assigns the beginning text from a Post or Page’s body into that meta property to increase the likelihood that Google’s link description will be the first lines of text from your page’s body.

  We can’t 100% control how Google will index a site, but that meta property is pretty accurate.

  So your method described is what I’d recommend as well.

  Best,

  -Alex G.

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  laurapalmerwp · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 2:44 pm

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  Great – thanks for confirming that Alex.

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Dec 10, 2014 at 3:17 pm

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  Happy to help. :)