How to remove "Results 1 - 20 of 47" from Google SERP Snippet

[speedyseo]

We are trying to optimise our SERP snippet in Google to increase CTR, but we have this horrid "Results 1 - 20 of 47" in the description.

We feel this gets in the way of the message and so wish to remove it, but how??

Any ideas apart from removing the paging from the page?

[BryanCasson]

By simply writing a unique description on the pages that have the "Results 1-20" should fix that as Google will display your description as the snippet. If the description feed is blank then Google will either pull the first 160 chars it sees from your page and use that as the description, or Google will find a relevant match of page content according to your search query.

[speedyseo]

It's using the meta description, but adding the "Results 1 - 20 of 47" in front of it. It's a automated thing Google does and the text doesn't exist on the website anywhere.

You'll often see it on Amazon results also.

So that's not the answer.

Try Googling "amazon nike trainers" and hopefully you'll see what I mean.

[speedyseo]

I think the problem is that Google is detecting text on the page and then converting this into a special grey prefix on the SERP snippet description.

E.g the client has "Showing 1 - 15 of 87 results for 'xxx' " on their page. And they'll want to keep that... but we don't want Google magically detecting that and turning it into the prefix.

[BryanCasson]

So the Results 1-15 is not in the description then, it is in the rich snippet section. How about posting a small screenshot of the SERP and I will be able to find which rich snippet you need to kill.

[speedyseo]

Take a look at this

http://markup.io/v/gtp5xw5v7ak0

[BryanCasson]

This result does seem to fool us into thinking it is a rich snippet, however, I think it is one generated by Google and not manually. My guess is that Google has a robot that looks for the "of" with a numerical prefix and suffix and automatically generates a snippet for it.

[speedyseo]

Yes, exactly my thinking or along those lines.

Trying to think of a way of getting rid, without having to change the website for the worse.

[BryanCasson]

Well you could experiment by replacing the structure of the results:

Instead of: 1 - 12 of 236 products

Try: Viewing 1 - 12 of a possible 236 products

Maybe the long version will throw Google off

[speedyseo]

I think that's the way to go, my brain on a Friday isn't coming up with anything else!

I will experiment and see what works and report back.