Hey, My site just got listed in google today but for some reason the description looks like this: I dont know anything about seo, but shouldnt whats in my meta tabs be displayed? Sorry if this is a stupid question. - Sam
you need to put a META DESCRIPTION to you home page. PUt it after tag </title>: <meta name="description" content=YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE." />
Thanks for the quick reply gio. But i already have: <meta name="description" content=YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE." /> HTML: - Sam
meta description is not the problem - his site already has one. I'm guessing that your site is new.. give google some time to index it properly or put some info about your site in your main page.
The problem is that there isn't much text to be spydered, so Google thinks that is the main content of the page (it is the biggest amount of words you have together in your site). You should try to add a small description on what the site does and how to use it (be sure to include keywords you want to rank for).
This is a tricky one because Google usually ignore the description if they are keyword stuffed and duplicated. Yours seems OK though. If you've only just been indexed they might not yet have figured out the theme of the site and will eventually update the snippet on their own. I'd help them out with some text on the home page (at least temporarily) and add a few unique meta descriptions on your sub-pages too.
Thanks for your replies, I will add some more text to the main page and wait a while longer and see what happens... - Sam
yes i second that. wait for a few days see after the bot crawled your site they will change any info or not. dont forget to tell us the result.