just the url in the serp

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    we have a site that we SEO and we noticed that it is ranked #1 for the name of the site but google only shows the domain as a link... what gives?
     
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  2. Diablos

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    Have you set meta description?
     
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    That wouldn't matter, Google would pull it's own description from content snippets. To answer the question, you most likely have NOSNIPPET added to your robots meta tag. I would need to review the URL if this is not the case.
     
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    It does matter, I have had this with a new site of mine before and assumed it was just taking time but I had placed a typo in the meta description tag and a few days after I fixed it my site description appeared. Wasn't using NOSNIPPET either.

    I know you are being helpful dude but don't deny other peoples experience.
     
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    flash site?
     
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    meta description does matter
    please see link
    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264&query=snippets&topic=&type=#writegooddescriptions

    for the TS
    please read the google webmaster guidelines before applying any SEO iniatives on your sites
     
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    It could be one or many reasons.

    - bad code on the homepage
    - robots blocking content
    - 404 error codes on the server not set correctly.
    - improper use of redirects

    If you share the URL, i'm sure we can shed more light.
     
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    I am looking at all of that.... we have about 12 subdomains for each country and a all pages are 301-ed correctly... meta is there.

    also where are over 25 domain names that have been 301-ed into the main www version of the site...

    Has anyone seen a result that is only a link of the dmain name? it is very odd..

    I will look further into it and will update if I figure it out.

    If anyone has had the exact same issue please advise on how you fixed it...
     
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