SEO & Page Description Not Matching Search Results

SeaTiger · ‎12-20-2016

Hello,

My site, http://canyoncountryhomebargains.weebly.com/

When I search for my page on Google using, "Canyon Country Home Bargains," my site appears on the 1st page like this (photo attached)

Find the BEST Home BARGAINS in Canyon Country - Condo in ...

The "Condo in" should not even be in the description. If you look at the page source, there appears to be several meta tag descriptions in the Head section; however, I do not find any reference to this particular description in any of the meta tag. How could that be? This page was copied from one of my previous sites.

Here are my SEO Weebly settings. This is a landing page. Only 1 page:

HEADER CODE:

<title>Get the BEST Canyon Country Home DEALS...SAVE THOUSANDS!</title>

Site Description:

Please help. Thank you.

Queso · ‎12-20-2016

Hello!

You may want to fill out the SEO information under the Pages section as well, as that can form an important part of what appears in a search.

sarahww · ‎12-24-2016

Thanks Queso, that was helpful as I've been having the same challenge. BUT... Even after changing the Page Title and Description of the separate pages under "Pages" in the edit function as well as the Site description in the SEO section under "Settings" in the edit function and Publishing repeatedly, old titles and descriptions continue to show when I share the publish with Facebook and do a Google search. What might I be missing doing to change the written stuff that shows on FB, Google, etc.?

I appreciate the help!

Sarah

Brodie · ‎12-26-2016

Hi Sarah,

Google will catch up soon, it takes them a minute to refresh. With Facebook, you can manually trigger this here:

http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

AngelXAces · ‎01-08-2017

I sent this a long time ago and for some reason it's the one thing that's still chillin out in auto save and never sent. most of the time my stoff gets lost but this, this one was loyal

Hey I got the answers to this if I may. Please excuse me for an eli5 (Explaine Like I'm 5) deal here. I don't know you're current knowlege of web dev and I would rather baby someone through a process so they can do it themselves again when they need to, over making someone feel like they need a translator and a dictionary. Brace yourself, my responses almost alway hace a scrollbar but I assure you, it's because I'm thorough.

The title tag isn't what you you seem to thing it is. <title></title> merely puts text across the top-most part of your browser window. That's it. The title, in my personal opinion, is a very useless requirement now that tab browing has made that area all-but non-exisetant.

Weebly helps you out a lot more than what meets the eye somethings and they take care of the meta tags that produce the results in the area that you are looking at. Let me show you.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Get the BEST Home DEALS in Canyon Country...SAVE THOUSANDS! - Home</title>

<meta property="og:site_name" content="Get the BEST Home DEALS in Canyon Country...SAVE THOUSANDS!" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Get the BEST Home DEALS in Canyon Country...SAVE THOUSANDS!" />
<meta property="og:description" content="SAVE THOUSANDS! Get the BEST Deal on Your Canyon Country Home Purchase GUARANTEED | Beat other Buyers to the Hottest Homes For Sale | Learn How We Get Your Offer Accepted | Vic &amp; Christine Costello  ALISTHOMES | John Hart Real Estate | 424.259..1153" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=350776108633191&ev=PageView&noscript=1" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj501/la90292/Canyon%20Country/2a_zpshgak6dq7.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj501/la90292/Canyon%20Country/4a_zpsk0q500df.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj501/la90292/Canyon%20Country/3a_zpsnr5ix0mw.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj501/la90292/Canyon%20Country/5a_zpsevq7mrhq.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://i1265.photo.com/albums/jj501/la90292/Canyon%20Country/1a_zpsinvc5h2u.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj501/la90292/Canyon%20Country/6a_zpsgltvdang.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj501/la90292/Marketing/zillow-agent-review_zpsvz3el7mf.png" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://canyoncountryhomebargains.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/9/1/18916721/vic-christine-tag-new-head-shots.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://canyoncountryhomebargains.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/9/1/18916721/jh-perfect-logo-2300_2.png" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://canyoncountryhomebargains.weebly.com/" />

<meta name="description" content="SAVE THOUSANDS! Get the BEST Deal on Your Canyon Country Home Purchase GUARANTEED | Beat other Buyers to the Hottest Homes For Sale | Learn How We Get Your Offer Accepted | Vic &amp; Christine Costello  ALISTHOMES | John Hart Real Estate | 424.259..1153" />
<meta name="keywords" content="homes for sale, canyon country, townhomes, condos" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>

<title>Canyon Country BEST Home BARGAINS For Sale</title>
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="-Ecdkqq1bB6dktHtJIk3YLvVksTihIPjjPbfjxIz-xU" />

That, my friend, is part of the head of your website. You don't remember writing thos meta tags do you? I know the feeling. First off I want to point out that you have 2 competing titles. That tells me you went rogue and put your own title into the Header type using the Edit HTML/CSS and I have only one thing to say to that sort of behavior!

Spoiler

Next rounds on me!

Unfortunately you'll have to delete your own and use the one weebly gave an input for in:

Pages -> PageName -> SEO Settings Page Title input box at the top.

Just do all of your visible SEO in that area. The header and footer are should appear only on that individual page. If you want something to be in the header/footer of every page, use the header/footer text areas in Settings->SEO.

If you're going to bring in an external javascript file or make structural/design edits, that's when you want to use the code area. Ultimately, you wanted these meta tages

<meta property="og:site_name" content="Get the BEST Home DEALS in Canyon Country...SAVE THOUSANDS!" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Get the BEST Home DEALS in Canyon Country...SAVE THOUSANDS!" />
<meta property="og:description" content="SAVE THOUSANDS! Get the BEST Deal on Your Canyon Country Home Purchase GUARANTEED | Beat other Buyers to the Hottest Homes For Sale | Learn How We Get Your Offer Accepted | Vic &amp; Christine Costello  ALISTHOMES | John Hart Real Estate | 424.259..1153" />

And those are controlled by the fields in the pages area.

I hope this helps. Hit me back with any feedback or questions. I'm here to help. This didn't end up being too much of an insult to intelligence, thankfully. Please feel free to PM me if you have any question, related or otherwise

AngelXAces · ‎01-08-2017

I was going to wrap the at code box in a spoiler tag. It works as a temporary fix but I'm just going to leave it maybe if it bugs someone else they'll fix it.