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Posted by maya on June 19, 2009, 12:19 am
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hi,
in google search results (and in other engines too, I think), the first
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line corresponds to what's in <title> in web page right? the second
line is supposed to be what you have in <meta name="description"..>
tag.. however, sometimes in results for a page on my site instead of
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content in <meta name="description"..> tag it show shows content of the
page, from inside <body> tag.. why does it do this, when in fact I have
<meta name="description"..> tag in all my pages..
thank you...
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Posted by Brian Cryer on June 19, 2009, 7:58 am
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> hi,
> in google search results (and in other engines too, I think), the first
> line corresponds to what's in <title> in web page right? the second line
> is supposed to be what you have in <meta name="description"..> tag..
> however, sometimes in results for a page on my site instead of content in
> <meta name="description"..> tag it show shows content of the page, from
> inside <body> tag.. why does it do this, when in fact I have <meta
> name="description"..> tag in all my pages..
Search engines are free to show you what they want. In the early days it
would have been the url, page title and meta-description and I'm sure many
search engines still use this combination. Of course this becomes a problem
when you consider that not all pages provide a title or meta-description.
I believe that Google will often use text from the page, either when it
thinks (according to who knows what criteria) that the page from the text is
more relevant or when the description is missing or does not appear relevant
to the page.
Personally, I'd still provide my own description for each page (whether
google or others use it or not).
HTH.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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Posted by maya on June 19, 2009, 5:00 pm
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Brian Cryer wrote:
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>> hi,
>> in google search results (and in other engines too, I think), the
>> first line corresponds to what's in <title> in web page right? the
>> second line is supposed to be what you have in <meta
>> name="description"..> tag.. however, sometimes in results for a page
>> on my site instead of content in <meta name="description"..> tag it
>> show shows content of the page, from inside <body> tag.. why does it
>> do this, when in fact I have <meta name="description"..> tag in all my
>> pages..
>
> Search engines are free to show you what they want. In the early days it
> would have been the url, page title and meta-description and I'm sure
> many search engines still use this combination. Of course this becomes a
> problem when you consider that not all pages provide a title or
> meta-description.
>
> I believe that Google will often use text from the page, either when it
> thinks (according to who knows what criteria) that the page from the
> text is more relevant or when the description is missing or does not
> appear relevant to the page.
>
> Personally, I'd still provide my own description for each page (whether
> google or others use it or not).
>
> HTH.
hi,
thank you for your response.. this SUCKS, it's not a good system at all
if they use info from body of page if the page has a meta-description
(after all, this is the main PURPOSE of meta-description tags, no??)
it also bugs the hell out of me that there is no way to communicate
directly with google about this, or anything else.. these folks make so
much money doing what they do, the least they could is answer questions
directly from folks who are affected by what they do...
thanks again..
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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on June 19, 2009, 5:26 pm
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> Brian Cryer wrote:
>>> hi,
>>> in google search results (and in other engines too, I think), the
>>> first line corresponds to what's in <title> in web page right? the
>>> second line is supposed to be what you have in <meta
>>> name="description"..> tag.. however, sometimes in results for a page
>>> on my site instead of content in <meta name="description"..> tag it
>>> show shows content of the page, from inside <body> tag.. why does
>>> it do this, when in fact I have <meta name="description"..> tag in
>>> all my pages..
>>
>> Search engines are free to show you what they want. In the early days
>> it would have been the url, page title and meta-description and I'm
>> sure many search engines still use this combination. Of course this
>> becomes a problem when you consider that not all pages provide a
>> title or meta-description.
>>
>> I believe that Google will often use text from the page, either when
>> it thinks (according to who knows what criteria) that the page from
>> the text is more relevant or when the description is missing or does
>> not appear relevant to the page.
>>
>> Personally, I'd still provide my own description for each page
>> (whether google or others use it or not).
>>
>> HTH.
>
> hi,
>
> thank you for your response.. this SUCKS, it's not a good system at
> all if they use info from body of page if the page has a
> meta-description (after all, this is the main PURPOSE of
> meta-description tags, no??)
>
> it also bugs the hell out of me that there is no way to communicate
> directly with google about this, or anything else.. these folks make
> so much money doing what they do, the least they could is answer
> questions directly from folks who are affected by what they do...
>
> thanks again..
>
>
>
>
>
If the meta description is "Maine Coon Cat in Glendale" and the page
content is "My Maine Coon, Rolo, is a beautiful female Maine Coon, with a
tabby coat, and large feet. She is a loving cat, and comes to a whistle.
I taught my cat to come to a whistle by whistling and then offering food
when she came in."
Now, say someone wants to know how to train their cat to come to a
whistle. The word whistle is not in the description, but it is in the
page content. The word whistle would appear in the SERPs, and send that
user to my site. If it were just on description alone, they might not
come.
(By the way, anyone reading this message from a site that uses Usenet
content, that IS the way I taught my cat to come to a whistle.)
--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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Posted by maya on June 20, 2009, 2:02 am
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Adrienne Boswell wrote:
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>
>> Brian Cryer wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>> in google search results (and in other engines too, I think), the
>>>> first line corresponds to what's in <title> in web page right? the
>>>> second line is supposed to be what you have in <meta
>>>> name="description"..> tag.. however, sometimes in results for a page
>>>> on my site instead of content in <meta name="description"..> tag it
>>>> show shows content of the page, from inside <body> tag.. why does
>>>> it do this, when in fact I have <meta name="description"..> tag in
>>>> all my pages..
>>> Search engines are free to show you what they want. In the early days
>>> it would have been the url, page title and meta-description and I'm
>>> sure many search engines still use this combination. Of course this
>>> becomes a problem when you consider that not all pages provide a
>>> title or meta-description.
>>> I believe that Google will often use text from the page, either when
>>> it thinks (according to who knows what criteria) that the page from
>>> the text is more relevant or when the description is missing or does
>>> not appear relevant to the page.
>>> Personally, I'd still provide my own description for each page
>>> (whether google or others use it or not).
>>> HTH.
>> hi,
>> thank you for your response.. this SUCKS, it's not a good system at
>> all if they use info from body of page if the page has a
>> meta-description (after all, this is the main PURPOSE of
>> meta-description tags, no??)
>> it also bugs the hell out of me that there is no way to communicate
>> directly with google about this, or anything else.. these folks make
>> so much money doing what they do, the least they could is answer
>> questions directly from folks who are affected by what they do...
>> thanks again..
>
> If the meta description is "Maine Coon Cat in Glendale" and the page
> content is "My Maine Coon, Rolo, is a beautiful female Maine Coon, with a
> tabby coat, and large feet. She is a loving cat, and comes to a whistle.
> I taught my cat to come to a whistle by whistling and then offering food
> when she came in."
>
> Now, say someone wants to know how to train their cat to come to a
> whistle. The word whistle is not in the description, but it is in the
> page content. The word whistle would appear in the SERPs, and send that
> user to my site. If it were just on description alone, they might not
> come.
>
> (By the way, anyone reading this message from a site that uses Usenet
> content, that IS the way I taught my cat to come to a whistle.)
>
>
>
well, this is the deal.. I have a photo site, in meta-description it
says something like "Photos of India, New York, Australia, Thailand"..
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but on the pages themselves, inside <body>, I have lots of numbers,
corresponding to the photos, with the no. for the current photo
highlighted (i.e., a different font-color..) so in the search-results,
for the pages in my photo site, instead of the content in the
meta-description tag I see something like:
1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24..
instead of what I put in the meta-description tag...
does this make sense to you????
now the weird thing is, this happens only SOMETIMES, only for some of
the pages (all the pages are coded exactly the same, the code is
generated from back-end programming..)
I think this is really weird...
thank you for your response...
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