Why is there no description under my site in the search results?

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  2. sarirejo

    sarirejo Well-Known Member

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    There is no need to worry, my site get this too, and now they back to normal.
    when i add that robots :eek: just remember it
     
    Last edited: Jan 11, 2010
    sarirejo, Jan 11, 2010 IP
  3. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    if you dont edit the main index file with description, google will pick random description form your blog. if you search for Facebook Morons which is your site, this term will need to be on one of the posts excerpt for google to pick it and use as description. you can either put the description on your blog yourself or let google pick a suitable description for you
     
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    btw: i was waiting for ~30 seconds to get it loaded
     
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  6. vagrant

    vagrant Peon

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    #6
    because you have
    <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />
    
    Code (markup):
    this is the default setting while you set up your blog but has to be changed once you go live.

    to fix the problem go to
    Settings --> Privacy --> Change Blog Visibility to "I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines ..."
     
    vagrant, Jan 11, 2010 IP
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    abhijit Notable Member

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    you have the problem of your server down or browsing time so spider unable to crawl it.................
     
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  8. cluongo18

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    I did this, now my robots.txt says:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow:
    
    
    Code (markup):
    that doesnt sound to good haha
     
    cluongo18, Jan 14, 2010 IP
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    do you have a <meta description=..> ?? that is what is supposed to show in sERP
     
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    it sounds very good actually, since there is nothing listed AFTER the disallow: therefore NOTHING is disallowed ;) ie search engines can now crawl your site.
     
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  11. cluongo18

    cluongo18 Member

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    So im wondering, its still not picked up on Google. I put in the site description under the General settings on WP, even on the SEO mod, and its still not showing up. Do I have to manually put this into the header php of Wordpress?
     
    cluongo18, Jan 27, 2010 IP
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    coolseo36 Well-Known Member

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    #12
    It needs some time after you edit robots.txt to allow bots to crawl your site and show the changes in search results...might take around a week for new site, its a common problem...thus next time when you set up a blog keep in mind that you need to first change the privacy settings:)
     
    coolseo36, Jan 28, 2010 IP
  13. joelchrist

    joelchrist Banned

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    For few sites, Google will take long time to index meta tags, wait for sometime.
     
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    Novascotian61 Peon

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    The idea of Titles/Descriptions is to inform the Reader.
    From Googles perspecitve - it uses these details to show it's searchers.

    If it see's Titles/Descriptions that are not relevant - or non-original (you have thesame title on every page etc.),
    then google may decide to try and create it's own.
    (It's done that for Descriptions for years, and for titles for some time).

    Thus - if you had no Title/Description when it crawled,
    or if you had the same Title/Description on multiple pages,
    or if you had limp/lame/useless/non-informative Titles/Descriptions (like "Home" or "Welcome" or "index" etc.),
    Google may decide to try and read your page, and figure something more relevant and helpful to it's users.

    from http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=2b626fae15f7a1cb&hl=en
     
    Novascotian61, Jan 28, 2010 IP
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    Because you did not add description tag in your header,

    So, add description in your header, and when google crawl again, it will get indexed.
     
    earnincome, Jan 28, 2010 IP