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    • stroke
      stroke last edited by

      (adult website)

      https://www.google.com.br/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=robertinha

      Why Google is not reading my description of Yoast plugin?

      Vídeos de sexo - Vídeos porno
      www.robertinha.com.br/
      Robertinha.com.br. lupa. facebook twitter plus. Página Inicial; Última Atualização: terça, 14 abril 2015. Página Inicial. Categorias. Amadoras (227) · Coroas (6) ...

      If I site: meusite.com.br work, he read correctly, but the site search not.
      I do not understand

      https://www.google.com.br/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site:robertinha.com.br

      Vídeos de sexo - Vídeos porno
      www.robertinha.com.br/
      Vídeos de sexo grátis: assista agora mesmo vídeos porno com gatas, gostosas, safadas fazendo muito sexo.

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      • renehansen
        renehansen last edited by

        Well first off, the meta description is not something that Google will be forced to use and as far as I can tell, the description looks fine in the code.

        _ "Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content" _- from support.google.com: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en#1 (I created a link that jumps to the specific section).

        Regarding your issue with site command, remember to remove the space in between the command and the url. E.g. site:domain.com.

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        • DonnaDuncan
          DonnaDuncan last edited by

          Hi Stroke,

          First check to make sure Google's has indexed the page. If it has, and you continue to see different results, it's because the search engines has decided to grab something else from the page and display it as the meta description. They do that sometimes.

          The best thing you can do to minimize this type of occurance is populate your meta description with a clear and accurate description of your page content.

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          • LinkWheelOldSchool
            LinkWheelOldSchool last edited by

            +1 to what Rene said, google is not forced to use your meta description (especially when the website is in a "complicated" niche).

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