Hello! I have a website serviciionline.net which have (in top) a long description "Anunturi gratuite, videoclipuri amuzante, horoscop zilnic, jocuri, poze, radio, bancuri, perle, director firme". If I try to find my website on Google (keyword: "anunturi gratuite"), it appears with this description: "Anunturi gratuite, videoclipuri amuzante, perle, divertisment, bancuri." Any ideas on this problem? Thanks!
its can take a number of minutes, hours, days, weeks or months for google to update the listings. It all depends how often google bot comes and spiders your site, which is dependant on how often you update your site.
The homepage is updated several times/day. Google comes once a day or two. Google's cache is also updated and sees that description. In Google Webmasters Tools I have no problem with the index (home) page. Also, more interesting is that for other pages in my website, the description is up-to-date. And the funny thing is that the description which Google lists right now is there for about 3 months now; 3 months ago that "description" was in meta description of my website That's why I'm asking, because is kinda' weird.
Use the meta description element if you don't want Google taking its own snippet out of your web pages for a description.
That's the problem, i don't want to use the description from meta, but from that text on top of my (master)page. I mean, it's all ok, but not the homepage, even it's the most often updated.
Why wouldn't you use the description meta element? You also shouldn't be stuffing your web pages with keywords for no good reason. Natural unique flowing content will have the sufficient keywords nessesary to rank on search engines.
It's not bloated with keywords, it's just the description that I need to see on Google. Everyone says that Google uses the description from meta only when the website has some problems. That's why I'm confused.
Google chooses the best description for the search term. Either your own or a snippet from your content. I see this as a good thing, because there clearly would be instances where my description would not have delivered the search rankings. (it was the description within my content used as the desription tag that did it) Some large sites do not bother with this tag as they beleive google does a better job. You may want to show your own description, but be prepared to lose rankings and vistors through it.
@dpking: I'm not subscribed in DMOZ/ODP. @larssonk22: What dou you mean? @Casperfinder: I had that meta description on my old website (which was 3 months ago). Is there any reason that Google is using it?