I am using All-in-One-seo. I change the title and meta description on the home page, but it is not showing up on the search. It is on the source code. When I change other pages, the both show up in the search, just not the home page. Any idea why?.

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

Make sure that there is the only title and the only meta on each page, also check for other technical errors. If there are none and metas you're talking about is in the source code, do a "fetch as google" from Google webmaster tools. Then wait couple days. It always takes time to update snippets in search results.

If ALL metas are not showing up even then, it means that there is a tech errors somewhere. If some of them showing up, but not others - Google reserves the right to not use provided titles or meta descriptions. Meaning that your meta descriptions are not related enough  to what is on the page.

[jgodwin]

We already have a verification code on the page. Should i replace it with a new one via 'fetch as google'?

[DmitriiK]

uhmmm.. what are you talking about?

[jgodwin]

On the 'fetch as google' webmaster tool https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch.  It gives a verification code to put in the html.  We did this a number of years ago. That's the code i referred to.

[DmitriiK]

It means that either the code (or file) was removed or your google account is not linked to that property. Just verify it again, if code is there, you won't have to do anything, but click "verify" button.

[DonnaDuncan]

Take a look at the source code of the cached page that is returned in search results. That'll let you know what Google has indexed.

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[MattRoney]

Hi jgodwin! Did this get worked out? Sounds like Kristen has pretty well nailed what's going on.

[jgodwin]

We did find the answer.  It was not re-verification (which I still wonder about) or Google 'rights'.  It was part of the All-in-one-SEO plug-in. We use Yoast on most of our sites so did not know about this intricacy of all-in-one.  There is a 'general" settings tab.  For the home page only, the plug-in has to be 'enabled'.  See attached. http://imgur.com/1RWnmfk .

[jgodwin]

Sorry, I meant 'disabled' not 'enabled' which is the default