Moz shows page has no meta description but it does

[copyfaxes1]

Hi

We recently worked on optimising one of our product pages, we created a new meta description, new unique content and a ensured it was optimised for our keyword. Despite all of this its ranking is still significantly lower than competitors eventhough the page authority is as good as theirs.

I have just noticed that Moz crawl diagnostics is showing it up as having no meta description - but it does! when you check the source you see:http-equiv="description" content="Buy the robust and reliable Canon imageRUNNER 2525 from Copyfaxes. Learn more about the Canon 2525 before you buy." />

The page is:

http://copyfaxes.com/product/2552/Canon-ImageRunner-2525-Digital-Copier

I would appreciate any ideas.

[LesleyPaone]

It might be that Moz's crawler is not picking up the description because of the way that you have it written. The standard way to write a meta description is like this.

name="description" content="Buy the robust and reliable Canon imageRUNNER 2525 from Copyfaxes. Learn more about the Canon 2525 before you buy." />

You have yours written like this.

http-equiv="description" content="Buy the robust and reliable Canon imageRUNNER 2525 from Copyfaxes. Learn more about the Canon 2525 before you buy." />

Using http-equiv actually tries to simulate meta information through a response header. Which is incorrect. You should rewrite your descriptions to be like the first type. Search engines might be able to decipher it, even though it is semantically wrong, but I would not risk it.