Google showing former meta tags in search results inspite of new tags being crawled by it

[pulseseo]

I had changed the meta tags for a site www.aztexsodablast.com.au about a month back and Google has also crawled those new tags but in search results when I search for the term 'Aztex Sodablast' it is continuing to show the old tags while on the site, the new tags are being displayed. What may be the issue and how could I correct the problem?

[SimonCullum]

Hi Manoj

Chances are that it's the delay between the spider bot crawling the website and the index being updated.

When (most) bots crawl a page, they take a cache (spiders' copy) of the page and process that copy at a later time. Thus there is a delay between when a spider crawls a page and the search results being updated.

You may find at times that the meta description isn't the same as the one you've written anyhows, Google does sometimes create it's own description to display in the search results, based upon some of the actual page content.

I'd suggest resubmitting your updated sitemap.xml and waiting a while longer, chances are all will be sorted shortly.

Regards

Simon

[sesertin]

Another possible solution is that google does not display your discription tag but a link anchor of some directory if you gave the same text as anchor. It is easy to decide which situation accurs, just look at the cached version of the page to find out. If the cached version shows the new desc you can still wait up to a week to be sure. If google display an anchor besides your description use this in the header: