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Few questions regarding Google SEO

by man5
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I've submitted my website to Google and added a sitemap of 5 main pages.

There are few things Google is not doing right.

1. On some pages the title shows but the description doesn't. In place of the description are words taken from the body of the page. Sometimes both the description and those words from the body content show. So either way, the meta description is a mess.

2. Sometimes hidden div classes names show up in the description.

3. Google is indexing pages that are not included in the sitemap.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have unique title and description for each page and I am only submitting the pages that I want shown.


Can anyone tell me what's going on?
#google #questions #seo
  • Profile picture of the author inetguru_987
    Originally Posted by man5 View Post

    I've submitted my website to Google and added a sitemap of 5 main pages.

    There are few things Google is not doing right.

    1. On some pages the title shows but the description doesn't. In place of the description are words taken from the body of the page. Sometimes both the description and those words from the body content show. So either way, the meta description is a mess.

    2. Sometimes hidden div classes names show up in the description.

    3. Google is indexing pages that are not included in the sitemap.

    I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have unique title and description for each page and I am only submitting the pages that I want shown.


    Can anyone tell me what's going on?
    1. This is normal. Google will sometimes show the most relevant data.

    2. This is a little odd. Check to make sure your coding is correct.

    3. You can handle this in the robots.txt.
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    Googlre will list what it finds, and it will find stuff other places than yor sitemap. If you don't want Google to list it, you should have used a robots.txt to tell them to stay out, but it is a bit late now as they already found it. Not sure how you tell them to un-find it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hossain
    Originally Posted by man5 View Post

    Google is not doing right.
    Everything is normal. Google is doing what it usually does.



    Originally Posted by man5 View Post

    1. On some pages the title shows but the description doesn't. In place of the description are words taken from the body of the page. Sometimes both the description and those words from the body content show. So either way, the meta description is a mess.
    It will depend on keywords. Google will pick up different texts from same page for different keywords. Lets say you have a webpage weight-loss.com. If you search the page using the keyword weight loss you will see one kind of description. Again if you search using fat loss keyword you might see different description for same webpage. Google will pick up texts to show on it's SERP according to your keywords. I would recommend you not to use meta description and give Google freedom to show it's own choice of texts.



    Originally Posted by man5 View Post

    2. Sometimes hidden div classes names show up in the description.
    This will not work. You have to remove contents which you want to hide. I have tasted it many times so I know the fact.



    Originally Posted by man5 View Post

    3. Google is indexing pages that are not included in the sitemap.
    It means your website structure is not worse. Which is good from some point of views. However to get rid of this problem you need to use robot.txt. Noindex the pages which you don't want to show on SERPs. Even though timpears said you are late but I still think if you put noindex on desired links after next crawl, Google will release those pages from it's SERPs. Hope that helps.
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