Greetings, I have a question. Check out site:www.lukebouman.com on google. This issue happens on a bunch of pages, but let's take the sellers page for instance. In google, the description is showing up as "Coldwell Banker Logo. Luke Bouman. Office: 616-355-6305; Cell: 616-502-8897. Add to Favorites · Blog / Message Board · Contact Luke Bouman ..." However, in my meta description tag I have this: "Luke Bouman provides a number of services to get your Holland Michigan Real Estate listing sold, in the West Michigan Real Estate market." Why is it showing the former and not the later? Any assistance with this issue will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Travis Walters
The description of your home page I get when I do a Google search is: "Search for Holland Michigan Real Estate. I specialize in Holland, Zeeland and neighboring West Michigan Real Estate. Start your Holland Homes search now." But, all your other pages have the description you mentioned. Looking at your source code, the phone numbers image has an alt text value of "Office: 616-355-6305; Cell: 616-502-8897" and the first text available on the page is "Add to Favorites · Blog / Message Board · Contact Luke Bouman". Google doesn't pull the description from the META tags automatically. It's often an amalgmation of content. One thing I noticed: your title tags are all virtually the same. Google has a problem with that. You need unique titles on each page, with unique descriptions and unique keywords in your META tags.
Google May or May not use Meta Description, 99% of the time it will use text right out of your content. I personally don't even write Meta Descriptions or Keywords for pages anymore on my new websites, for about the last 2 years. I personally just feel like it is a waste of time to write them. As fastwebs pointed out, you need to make unique titles for each page, that is relevant to the content on that specific page. This will help your rankings a lot, title tag and heading tag are 2 very important tags.
Hey there, Thanks for the prompt responses. I will mix up the title tag information a bit. I guess google will update this the next time it crawls the site? Sincerely, Travis Walters
It may or may not. I started a blog about 2 months ago, and it was one of the new version blogger blogs with a template that created the same title tag for every page. It took me a week to find a fix, and by then I'd written a lot of posts. For some reason, Google still has those old title tags in the index. So it may take a while for them to update. One thing you can do: change the content on each page slightly so that Google thinks is an updated page. That sometimes helps to get the title text re-indexed.