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description not showing up on google

by whitebread
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I updated my title and description yesterday. However, google has already updated my title this morning but description google is displaying is just a random sentence from my site. Is that normal? Can anyone tell me why is google not displaying my main description.
#description #google #google page 1 #showing
  • Profile picture of the author SledgeHammer
    Are you saying about the META tag description or the description that you've given to the Google submit page ?
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      META TAG description
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      • Profile picture of the author SledgeHammer
        Originally Posted by whitebread View Post

        META TAG description
        it's because Google ignores(most of the times) META tags.
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  • Profile picture of the author musicworld1
    hi

    search in google as "Why-is-My-Site-Not-Showing-Up-in-Google", then you will find some articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by cignusweb View Post

      wait some times more, sure Google will show your description, don't worry guys.
      Where did you get that nonsense from?

      Do a search for a few things in Google - anything --- look at the results.... how often do you see the meta description displayed?
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    • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
      Originally Posted by JasonDevans View Post

      if you do not have description then google indexes it based on the content,
      What another load of nonsense.

      Do a search for anything in google. Find a result that has a snippet that does not look like the meta description. 99.9% of the time the site does have meta description.
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        • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
          Originally Posted by JasonDevans View Post

          Your saying something that isn't proven. Where did you get these figures from? 99.9% of the time? He's not talking about In GENERAL and OTHER PEOPLES RESULTS.
          here is challenge for you ... do what I suggested. Prove me wrong. Find me a search result that shows a snippet of text in the search results for site that is not from the meta tag and that site does not have a meta description tag. Anyone reading here can go and do this and see you talking nonsense.
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  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    To save you the trouble here is a search result I picked for no particular reason:
    how to fix a leaking tap - Google Search=

    Most of the results have a snippet that is not the meta description. I checked the first five sites and they all have a meta description (thats 100% rather than the 99.9% I said above) ... do you think Google is going to start using those meta descriptions given more time? (as that is what you are claiming)
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