How can my homepage have 2 meta descriptions?

[NHA_DistanceLearning]

Hi all,

When googling our company, I see our main page pop up with 2 different meta descriptions, depending on the search query.

The situation
The search query 'nha' (on google.nl) returns the main page with a meta description that looks like a random grab from the code by Google itself, starting with 'Ik volg een cursus bij de NHA...'

The search query 'nha.nl' (on google.nl) returns the main page with the proper meta description, starting with 'Aanbieder van thuisstudies met onder meer MBO-opleidingen...'.

So yeah, I'd like to have the main page only appear with the proper meta description, the latter one. We did have a redirect issue (duplicate homepages) a few weeks ago and programming fixed it. Could this have something to do with a redirect?

I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

[MindlessWizard]

I don't think this has something to do with the 301 redirect. I notice the same thing while i search for mydomainname.com  and keywords. Both of them display different meta description.

Here is something that can help you

https://yoast.com/google-page-title/
http://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description

[NHA_DistanceLearning]

Hi Wizard,

Thanks! That's certainly helpful. Google's nudges aren't unknown to me, but the fact that this particular phenomenon only occurs under aforementioned circumstances made me doubt if it could not be a technical issue after all.

[MindlessWizard]

Hi Bas

I have seen most of this case with CMS like Wordpress. I haven't yet faced this with Magento yet. But with WP i am using some SEO plugins and maybe that can be one reason. But i manually checked meta title and description of each pages via the source code view and it is the same as i used. But the meta description that is being displayed by google is obvious threat for CTR. I am trying to find if i can find any answer to this issue ( if it is really an issue ).

You must  have a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HX_8BAhB4