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How Do I get Google to update my Snippet

by stebout
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Hello. I'm looking to get Google to use my Meta tag as the snippet displayed for my website. Google is using is the first sentence on my website. I've modified my Meta tag several times, but can't seem to get them to update. Any ideas? Do I need to wait longer? Thanks, Steve.
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  • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
    I suspect you are not being patient enough. It takes a while from when you change a page, for the change to be found by google, and then for the change to be displayed in the search engine results.

    Read this thread for details.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...t-indexed.html

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author Midir
    I had a problem like this for a website of mine that was getting 40-100 visitors a day, and it took google over 2 weeks to update the snippet.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeWike
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    • Profile picture of the author theverysmartguy
      I changed a "snippet" on one of my sites, and Googles crawled and changed it within a few hours.

      All I did was make sure the site was pinged; and then ran it through an indexing program as well.

      Once I did all that, Google came a running.

      -- Jeff
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      "Doing nothing is worse than doing it wrong."

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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        I may be wrong on this one, but if the site in question is
        in your sig, that meta description is not even as good as
        the first line of the webpage. Google is actually pretty
        smart in those things, and they do it to help the
        searcher, not penalize you. It's your benefit as well
        to include whatever looks best.

        But, as I said, google may change it over time.

        Just answered a similar question today here.

        Wikipedia uses none of that crapola meta, but
        their content is optimized. People should optimize
        content, not meta tags. In fact, I'd say
        "optimized meta tags" is an oxymoron.

        That's like saying a "great gas mileage hummer."

        Paul
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        If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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        • Profile picture of the author stebout
          Thanks everyone for the feedback. I'm new to all this and every bit of feedback helped. Google did modify my snippet as of yesterday.

          paulgl: yes it's the site in my sig and thanks for the feedback. I'll re-evaluate.

          I do have another question and not sure if I should start a new post or continue on this one...I will continue here and if I shouldn't please let me know.

          Does anyone know how often Google re-evaluates a site and determines on what page it will show on the search results for that phrase. Last week I was on the first page for search term "Pringles Coupons" but now I'm on the top of page 2? Cheers!
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          • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
            Originally Posted by stebout View Post

            Does anyone know how often Google re-evaluates a site and determines on what page it will show on the search results for that phrase. Last week I was on the first page for search term "Pringles Coupons" but now I'm on the top of page 2? Cheers!
            Google evaluates results effectively in real time/continuously. It's an ongoing thing that is happening in the background all the time.

            Remember that indexing and ranking and completely separate processes and not really related to each other.

            It's normal for your rankings to go up and down over time, particularly for newer sites or when first ranking for a keyword.

            It's a sign that your site probably has not got enough authority so focus on adding more content and internal links and some backlinks as well.

            Cheers


            Tim
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            • Profile picture of the author stebout
              Thanks Tim!
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Keep in mind that Google won't automatically use your meta description if in Google's infinite wisdom, they find a more representative snippet in your article body.
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