Hello, I have noticed a huge drop in visitors for my site geekgods.net. Finally having the time to take a closer look using the webmaster tools in google, I can see why. Using site:www.geekgods.net in google, my meta tags for each page are not being utilized at all. Instead of using the meta description tag, it's taking some of my code in the template for the description. It is a Joomla site, and the template has a color change feature and font size change feature. It is taking the code for that for the description. Anyone have ideas on how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
that happened to our site. why don't you replace you meta tags. i mean change it and make a fresh content
may be some other reason for your drop in visitors. Use all seo tactics on-page and off-page optimization of the site for increasing traffic.
try to optimized your meta tag and make sure it show before other content. it might be some minor mistake in the code that would give a no result to search engine bot. just check your code again. ^^
Thank you for suggestions. The meta tags are showing before other content, but I don't know why they are not being utilized. Any other suggestions, or if there are some Joomla users out there that have had similar problems, please feel free to contact me!
The <head> section is pretty scrappy, and you have a mismatch with your tags. See here see error 3. Appears Google is seeing your content as your documents head section. I'd sort these out and your problem will go away.
I fixed that error. We will see if that helps. I am using Joomla, so there is a lot of issues with SEO I need to sort out. For some reason, it is adding a comma to my meta description tags when I click on one of my stories. Wonder if that's related?
It also happen to some of my inner pages. The page has rank for my targeted keywords but google get the description on the content not in the meta description.
good luck trying to be good friends with google. Just fight harder. I have been banned and blacklisted five times and still have multiple google accounts. Haha, suck that Google.