Sometimes our meta description being displayed is not ours?

[David-McGawn]

Meta Description sometimes are now pulled from the main body content, Google is getting more and more good at finding the most relevant content on a page to display to a particular search.

In the future i can see Meta Descriptions being dropped just the same as the Meta Keywords have

Hope this helps

[pac-cooper]

David - This incorrect meta description does not appear anywhere on our website or anywhere on our Google+, social sites, etc.

[David-McGawn]

Old indexed content??

[N1ghteyes]

Can you provide exactly what your seeing? (as in the full meta description that you think is incorrect and what it should be?)

This is what i see when viewing markup on your homepage, but with the above info i have no idea if thats correct or not

[pac-cooper]

Hi Toby - Please see the image in my first comment above. This includes screenshot of both variations.

[N1ghteyes]

Ah, completely missed the attachement.

I'll poke about and see if i can spot anything

[pac-cooper]

Doubtful. This was not on the old website. I'm told it was never used. See below, the wording is awkwardly worded, which makes me think it was a poor translation or something. Not sure.

"Manufactures a fencing system to protect pool systems from children."

[N1ghteyes]

Hmm i cant see anything funny going on, this is essentually what googlebot should see when viewing the page. If you'd been hacked i would expect to see the wrong description here.

http://www.evolvedwebsites.com.au/googlebot/view.php?url=protectachild.com&keywords=evolved+websites%2C+website&submit=VIEW+AS+GOOGLEBOT

If the site has been live a week, you might just be in a bit of a blip. Best thing i can suggest is request a reindex / new crawl in GWMT and wait it out. Google can take 3 ~ 4 weeks to update listings properly when meta information changes (in my experiance atleast)

[pac-cooper]

Ok. Will do.

Any recommendation as far as those 30+ backlinks from those link farm sites? It is strange that those are the only websites that include that incorrect meta description.

[N1ghteyes]

As with any backlinks you dont want, if you cant request removal you should disavow them in GWMT

[pac-cooper]

Good idea. Thanks for the help!