My Site Has Lost Its Description! WHY?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by chrissatchwell, Nov 28, 2006.

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    Just been to check the ranking for one of my main search terms. It has risen since I last looked but it has lost its description! :eek:

    Here is the direct search in Google (hope it works): http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=free+stock+images&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

    My site is 2nd from bottom, says www.freestockimages.net. When I last checked it had the proper title, description like the rest of the listings.

    Ive not made any changes recently to any of the meta-tags.

    Anyone have any ideas why its like this? :confused:
     
    chrissatchwell, Nov 28, 2006 IP
  2. chrissatchwell

    chrissatchwell Peon

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    Wait I just checked again and its all changed again from 5 minutes ago when I was typing the post above.

    Its now back onto the third page - looks like the results are all over the place! OMG!
     
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  3. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    Its on the third page...

    I see a discription....

    Free Stock Images is a photo image sharing service for photographers and webmasters. Blog pictures and free wallpaper image for a quick download image.
     
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  4. Ohene

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    Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
     
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    Google will show a different description depending on the keyword people are searching for. Apparently it also gets confused sometimes - probably something to do with the update going on right now.
     
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    Google sometimes resorts to odp descriptions for sites (I've seen this alot) Not sure why this is but I've always assumed it was a backup if it couldn't access it's own database for any reason. Maybe if there's no odp entry it doesn't show a description? This is just speculation - I;m sure someone can shed more light
     
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    This kind of thing usually happens during updating of google's databases. That's why you got pushed to the third page after the description disappeared.

    Thank You
     
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    something's surely up with google as the description of one of my site's pages are 3-4 lines long. Upon closer examination, it becomes apparent that the same single-lined description of a page is being repeated over and over again in that 4-lined description. :)
     
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    Bisje Active Member

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    My site always show up with the odp description...
    So I don't think it only happen when there is something wrong with their database.
    But I also don't know why they are showing the ODP description :confused: instead of my tags.
     
    Bisje, Nov 29, 2006 IP