Homepage meta desc shown wrong on google

Resolved alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 8 months ago

Hi,
I installed YOAST SEO plugin which is fine but as i search for my webpage smartravel.ch on google it gives me a metadescription:

“smARTravel – We guide you! | | … il servizio RSI sul… Moebius Lugano – 29.09.2015http://www.moebiuslugano.ch/index.php/edizione-2015/premiazione2015.”
This sentence “il servizio RSI………” with a link of moebiuslugano is comming from a “Advantages” section in my wordpress backend, which is designed to show some companies that are talking about our app with its links. I suppose this is a direct conflict from plugin with a template but i dont know how to solve it. I did everything inside webmaster tools, since from fetching to sitemaping.
Is there any way you can help me ?
My description on google should be like this:
smARTravel – We guide you! | An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.
But as i said it loads a links and some lines that are on homepage…

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

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Plugin Support amboutwe
(@amboutwe)

7 years, 8 months ago

A: What description did you enter for the page?
B: What description is output in the source code of your site?
C: What description does Google show?

Do A and B descriptions match? If not, please try the suggestions in this article: I’m not seeing a meta description in my <head> section?

Do A/B and C descriptions match? If not, please try the suggestions in this article: My meta descriptions arent showing up in the search result pages

Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 8 months ago

A: I enter description: An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.

B: In an output code of my homepage is the description i entered.
C: I wrote you in the first post what does google show, it shows this:
“smARTravel – We guide you! |
http://www.smartravel.ch/
smARTravel – We guide you! | | … il servizio RSI sul… Moebius Lugano – 29.09.2015http://www.moebiuslugano.ch/index.php/edizione-2015/premiazione2015.”

As I told you before – this line “…il servizio RSI sul… Moebius Lugano – 29.09.2015http://www.moebiuslugano.ch/index.php/edizione-2015/premiazione2015.” is comming from a Testimonials part of wordpress theme. So i think this is a conflict with theme and a plugin, i had a simular problem like this in joomla few years ago.
My header.php contains a wp_head in the following way:
/* Always have wp_head() just before the closing </head>
* tag of your theme, or you will break many plugins, which
* generally use this hook to add elements to <head> such
* as styles, scripts, and meta tags.
*/
wp_head();

So what should i do ? I installed the plugin like its supposed to be, did the SEO and everything, i am quite experienced with using plugins and wordpress and doing seo with google webmaster tools, so im not a newbie but i cannot solve this problem as i think its something in the code.

Plugin Support amboutwe
(@amboutwe)

7 years, 8 months ago

After reviewing the code for your site, you are outputting multiple meta description tags. This can cause a variety of problems including issues sharing content or having the correct description appear in Google.

Screenshot

The most common cause of duplicate descriptions is when a theme also outputs a description in the header. Please check your theme settings and turn off any SEO output. If the issue remains, please run a conflict check following the steps here: How To Check For Plugin Conflicts

Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 8 months ago

I do not understand this screenshot you gave me since my sitemap.xml loads fine…
I share the same opinion as you that my theme is conflicting with YOAST plugin and thats why it cannot show the right description.
If you look for my website source code of the homepage, you can find following codes:

<title>smARTravel – We guide you! | An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”smARTravel – We guide you! | | An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.” />
<meta charset=”UTF-8″ />
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″>
<link rel=”profile” href=”//gmpg.org/xfn/11″ />
<link rel=”icon” href=”http://smartravel.ch/wp-content/themes/theme52146-1/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” />
<link rel=”pingback” href=”http://smartravel.ch/xmlrpc.php” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”smARTravel – We guide you!” href=”http://www.smartravel.ch/feed/” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”smARTravel – We guide you!” href=”http://www.smartravel.ch/feed/atom/” />
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”http://smartravel.ch/wp-content/themes/theme52146-1/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css” />
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”http://smartravel.ch/wp-content/themes/theme52146-1/bootstrap/css/responsive.css” />
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”http://smartravel.ch/wp-content/themes/CherryFramework/css/camera.css” />
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”all” href=”http://smartravel.ch/wp-content/themes/theme52146-1/style.css” />

<!– This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v3.4.2 – https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ –>
<meta name=”description” content=”An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.”/>
<meta name=”robots” content=”noodp”/>
<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.smartravel.ch/” />
<meta property=”og:locale” content=”en_US” />
<meta property=”og:type” content=”website” />
<meta property=”og:title” content=”smARTravel – We guide you! |” />
<meta property=”og:description” content=”An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.” />
<meta property=”og:url” content=”http://www.smartravel.ch/” />
<meta property=”og:site_name” content=”smARTravel – We guide you!” />
<meta property=”fb:app_id” content=”534238703451995″ />
<meta property=”og:image” content=”http://web133.login-13.loginserver.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hand-iphone.jpg” />
<meta name=”twitter:card” content=”summary” />
<meta name=”twitter:description” content=”An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.” />
<meta name=”twitter:title” content=”smARTravel – We guide you! |” />
<meta name=”twitter:site” content=”@smartravelapp” />
<meta name=”twitter:image” content=”http://web133.login-13.loginserver.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hand-iphone.jpg” />
<meta name=”twitter:creator” content=”@smartravelapp” />
<script type=’application/ld+json’>{“@context”:”http:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”WebSite”,”url”:”http:\/\/www.smartravel.ch\/”,”name”:”Smartravel”,”potentialAction”:{“@type”:”SearchAction”,”target”:”http:\/\/www.smartravel.ch\/?s={search_term_string}”,”query-input”:”required name=search_term_string”}}</script>
<script type=’application/ld+json’>{“@context”:”http:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”Organization”,”url”:”http:\/\/www.smartravel.ch\/”,”sameAs”:[“http:\/\/facebook.com\/smartravelapp\/”,”http:\/\/instagram.com\/smartravelapp\/”,”https:\/\/twitter.com\/smartravelapp”],”name”:”Alsaro”,”logo”:”http:\/\/www.smartravel.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/smARTravel_logo.jpg”}</script>
<meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”cUQfr0GXVXqFGpDc-Sc3uUkKyVqr5-iKxKAxLjr9UPc” />
<!– / Yoast SEO plugin. –>

This means that your plugin does the job fine, so its nothing about your plugin, instead is about the theme that is causing the problem. I even put meta desc on everypage to be the same, hoping that it will change the description on google and repair it. When I address to the theme developers – they say that they don’t do the SEO support, so i really don’t know what to do. Can you help me a little more and think what can be the problem? I turned off the SEO of in cherry options, so my theme is not having an impact to robots.txt nor to sitemap
Plugin Support amboutwe
(@amboutwe)

7 years, 8 months ago
The source code you provided above shows two sets of meta descriptions.
```
<title>smARTravel – We guide you! | An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places.</title>
<meta name="description" content="smARTravel – We guide you! | | An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places." />
```
…
```

<meta name="description" content="An innovative multimedia app as an audioguide for visitors of museums, galleries, cities, tourist attractions, parks and other places."/>
```
Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 8 months ago

Yea but google is not showing any of that too. So what should i do? And how does that come that i have 2 meta descs ?

Plugin Support amboutwe
(@amboutwe)

7 years, 8 months ago

If you output two descriptions, it’s likely Google doesn’t know which to use so it creates one for you.

You will have multiple descriptions if our plugin and something else in your setup outputs them. We see this most often when a theme hard codes a description into the their files.

Try switching to a default theme, like Twenty Sixteen, and see if the double descriptions remain. If they do, it’s probably output by another plugin. Disable all non-Yoast plugins and check the source code again. If the double descriptions are gone with only Yoast SEO active, enable one plugin and look at the source code again. Keep enabling plugins until you find the one that adds the duplicate description.

Once you discover which plugin/theme adds the duplicate, check the settings of that plugin/theme and see if you can disable SEO. If you don’t see any option, reach out to the plugin/theme developer for advice on disabling the description output.

Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 8 months ago

How do i check if i still have multiple descriptions ?
Plugin Support amboutwe
(@amboutwe)

7 years, 8 months ago
Please select your browser below for steps to view the page source:
- Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
If you use another browser, please use your favorite search engine to locate steps on viewing the page source in your browser.
Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 8 months ago

Okay, i think i fixed the double description problem as far as i can see.
If you can check my source code again at http://www.smartravel.ch and tell me am i in right ?
I re-fetched all my pages at google, put my sitemap to be shown on both www and non www urls, and re-submited it on www and non www version of site at google webmaster tools.
What are the further steps?
Should i wait few days or what ?

Plugin Support amboutwe
(@amboutwe)

7 years, 8 months ago

The double titles have been fixed in your current source code. However, I noticed the title tag was also removed which may cause a similar issue with titles.

It can take up to a week for Google to index the changes you made, depending on how often your website is crawled. So for now, we’ll have to wait for Google to crawl your site again.

Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 7 months ago

I waited for 8 days and my website still has the same problem.
If you google for: smartravel.ch
You will see the problem.
Sitemaps are accepted with no errors, both for smartravel.ch and http://www.smartravel.ch
Pages are fetched and i dont know what else to do.
The wierd thing is that my website description is good when you search it on mobile phone, but when you search it on computer it shows bad ??
Can you help please

Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 7 months ago

My title is also not showing because from my template support told me to delete these lines from the header.php so it can stop causing the bug that is still showing on google when i search:

<head>
<title><?php if ( is_category() ) {
echo theme_locals(“category_for”).” "”; single_cat_title(); echo ‘" | ‘; bloginfo( ‘name’ );
} elseif ( is_tag() ) {
echo theme_locals(“tag_for”).” "”; single_tag_title(); echo ‘" | ‘; bloginfo( ‘name’ );
} elseif ( is_archive() ) {
wp_title(”); echo ” “.theme_locals(“archive”).” | “; bloginfo( ‘name’ );
} elseif ( is_search() ) {
echo theme_locals(“fearch_for”).” "”.esc_html($s).’" | ‘; bloginfo( ‘name’ );
} elseif ( is_home() || is_front_page()) {
bloginfo( ‘name’ ); echo ‘ | ‘; bloginfo( ‘description’ );
} elseif ( is_404() ) {
echo theme_locals(“error_404″).” | “; bloginfo( ‘name’ );
} elseif ( is_single() ) {
wp_title(”);
} else {
wp_title( ‘ | ‘, true, ‘right’ ); bloginfo( ‘name’ );
} ?></title>

Can you tell me which lines should I leave so my title will be shown as I wrote it in yoast configuration?

Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 7 months ago

<meta name=”description” content=”<?php wp_title(); echo ‘ | ‘; bloginfo( ‘description’ ); ?>” />

This line was also deleted from header.php

Thread Starter alsaro
(@alsaro)

7 years, 7 months ago

Please answer

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