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What gives with Google?

by timpears
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So I created a new blog and installed WordPress. Created my first post, and looked to see what it looked like in Google. This is my description they have put under my link.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! The Best Way To Lose Weight - FAST. Search for: Recent Posts. Hello world!
WTF! This is going to attract a lot of surfers, that is for sure. </sarcasm>

Anything I can do to fix this?
#google
  • Profile picture of the author marketingva
    Hi Tim,

    At least a year ago Google started making up their own title and description for sites based on the text on the page. It's frustrating but I have not found a way to force them to correct this even if you update the site.

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  • Profile picture of the author Angle Warrior
    Not to sound stupid, but did you delete the post that say's "Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! The Best Way To Lose Weight – FAST. Search for: Recent Posts. Hello world!" before you created your post?, I always delete the wordpess post completely not just remove the text then place my own.
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    • Profile picture of the author timpears
      Originally Posted by Angle Warrior View Post

      Not to sound stupid, but did you delete the post that say's "Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! The Best Way To Lose Weight – FAST. Search for: Recent Posts. Hello world!" before you created your post?, I always delete the wordpess post completely not just remove the text then place my own.
      First thing I do with every site is to remove that post that comes with WordPress. I sure hope they rethink this before I start driving traffic to it in a day or two.
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  • Profile picture of the author Angle Warrior
    I hope it gets sorted out for ya too!
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by timpears View Post

    So I created a new blog and installed WordPress. Created my first post, and looked to see what it looked like in Google. This is my description they have put under my link.
    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! The Best Way To Lose Weight – FAST. Search for: Recent Posts. Hello world!
    WTF! This is going to attract a lot of surfers, that is for sure. </sarcasm>

    Anything I can do to fix this?
    Your blaming Google for text you've put on your own webpages?

    Brilliant...

    Change the on page text & get the page reindexed (WMT Fetch as Google). If you don't have a meta description tag, add a meta description tag.

    Not having a meta description tag can also work to your advantage for multiple variations of a SERP description depending on the keyword phrase being searched by multiple unique traffic.

    It also depends on how your page is setup. The keyword your searching can also trigger Google to use different parts of text on a page, for instance I can get Google to ignore page titles over several internal pages & use <h> tags for the SERP titles.
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    • Profile picture of the author timpears
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Your blaming Google for text you've put on your own webpages?

      Brilliant...

      Change the on page text & get the page reindexed (WMT Fetch as Google). If you don't have a meta description tag, add a meta description tag.

      Not having a meta description tag can also work to your advantage for multiple variations of a SERP description depending on the keyword phrase being searched by multiple unique traffic.

      It also depends on how your page is setup. The keyword your searching can also trigger Google to use different parts of text on a page, for instance I can get Google to ignore page titles over several internal pages & use <h> tags for the SERP titles.
      Obviously you think I am an idiot, but believe it or not, I didn't put those words on my site. if you didn't recognize them, those are the default sentence that WordPress comes with.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by timpears View Post

        Obviously you think I am an idiot, but believe it or not, I didn't put those words on my site. if you didn't recognize them, those are the default sentence that WordPress comes with.
        Yes, you put the text on your site/page when you installed the CMS. Google only used the text you supplied.

        It's not a big deal, do what I posted above, change the text & get the page reindexed. Done.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    Google will use information from your web page for the description if they don't feel like the description is related enough to your web content.

    It looks like Google put that description when you first made the site, keep working with the site, it should go away once it is recrawled if you don't have that information posted on there anymore.
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