Title: Meta Description
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Meta Description

 *  [bryanricard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bryanricard/)
 * (@bryanricard)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/)
 * Hey everyone,
 * I’m running 3.0 with the iNove theme and have tried multiple SEO plugins through
   WordPress. Right now I have the “FV All in One SEO Pack”.
 * What I’m mainly looking to do is have the right description of my website when
   appearing on Google. Through many attempts, and making sure Google crawled it
   sometime after, the Google description keeps showing a couple sentences from 
   whatever the most current post is.
 * With this SEO pack I plugged in a Home title, Home description, and Home keywords.
 * What should I really be doing?
 * Thank you so much in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [bryanricard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bryanricard/)
 * (@bryanricard)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/#post-1745880)
 * bump
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/#post-1745881)
 * That is true google takes your title and first few lines from your page or post
   Meta description is not used any more.
 *  Thread Starter [bryanricard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bryanricard/)
 * (@bryanricard)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/#post-1745886)
 * Are you sure? I see a lot of people’s personal websites show a description of
   their site/blog…not the beginning of the most recent post.
 *  [Joseph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpe24524/)
 * (@jpe24524)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/#post-1745887)
 * Google still uses my meta decriptions. They may or may not use it. It’s not guaranteed.
 * > We use a number of different sources for this information, **including descriptive
   > information in the META tag** for each page. Where this information isn’t available,
   > we may use publicly available information from DMOZ. While accurate meta descriptions
   > can improve clickthrough, they won’t impact your ranking within search results.**
   > We frequently prefer to display meta descriptions of pages (when available)**
   > because it gives users a clear idea of the URL’s content.
 * Ref: [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35264](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35264)**
   updated 10/28/2010**
 *  Thread Starter [bryanricard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bryanricard/)
 * (@bryanricard)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/#post-1745888)
 * Thanks Joseph.
 * Now my question is, how to I _correctly_ add my meta description through wordpress?
 *  [FolioVision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foliovision/)
 * (@foliovision)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/#post-1745947)
 * Hi Byran,
 * All you can do in WordPress is make sure that your own description is showing
   up in source. What Google takes is up to Google (and the source of long controversial
   discussions among SEOs). For mass editing of your descriptions give our [FV Descriptions](http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/foliopress-descriptions)
   a whirl it’s a big help.
 * For a faster answer, support for our FV plugins is on our own site. In this case
   at [FV All in One SEO](http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-all-in-one-seo-pack).
 * Thanks for trying Foliovision’s FV plugins!
 * Making the web work for you, Alec Kinnear

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [FolioVision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foliovision/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-description-2/#post-1745947)
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