We just updated our keywords and descrption a few days ago, and now Google has indexed our site with the description <img src= What is going on here? Type "Free Gold Watch" into Google and you will see what I mean. Free Gold Watch - 7:13pm <img src= www.freegoldwatch.com/ - 5k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this This is our url! http://www.freegoldwatch.com Any help is greatly appreciated!
If you look at what google cached by clicking the "cached" link on your listing you can see that Google recorded the following as your meta tags. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days"> <meta name="classification" content="Commercial"> <meta name="description" content=""> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> <meta name="keywords" content=""> <meta name="robots" content="ALL"> <meta name="distribution" content="Global"> <meta name="rating" content="Safe For Kids"> <meta name="copyright" content=""> <meta name="author" content="JVF Consulting, LLC"> <meta http-equiv="reply-to" content=""> <meta name="doc-class" content="Completed"> <meta name="doc-rights" content="Copywritten Work"> Since Google has not found a "content" meta tag it simply jumps to using the first lines of your body text. But if you look at the source, you have virtually no text on the page, its just all one big image and unfortunately Google has no way of seeing the text in your image. Thus it looks like Google has resorted to getting the first bit of code it can find in your body and using that as your description. There is also a problem with the meta description tag in itself. If you use a html validator you can see that it uses some non universal characters. In particular the validator has probelms with the †and the ’ characters. If you look they are different from the standard " and '. Your SEO company has used non standard versions probably because they want to avoid closing the meta tag. Ask them to take a look at these characters and remove them, Google may have problems parsing them correctly. After you have made the changes to the meta description it's just a case of waiting for Google to respider. Hopefully, the problem will then be resolved.
Thanks for all the replies! Looks like the description is now taking ok, but the title is still the same. I'm curious which html validator you are using to find the errors? I get a pass when I do this test. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...profile=css3&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en
You are using a CSS validator. This is the one I used http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0