Where do you see that blog description? Where are you looking to conclude that that is your ‘meta description’? That kinda looks like the footer text, but that is not the same as a ‘meta’ anything.
You also need to remember that updates you make to the tags aren’t going to show up on immediately on the various engines. The changes will show up next time the search engine scans your site.
What scroll bar are you talking about? Your browser is going to add a scroll bar anytime the page is longer or wider than than the browser window. You can prevent this with the CSS overflow command, but you’ll potentially make the site unreadable as all overflow will just go away.
We all have different screen sizes, is there a preferred size that suits pretty much everyone?
A thousand px wide by about 7.7 hundred high according to w3schools but I never build to a browser size. I’ll make the layout workable at around 7 or 8 hundred px wide then let it scale from there. To do that you have to use percentages for your widths including the widths of margins and paddings (mostly). It can be tricky.
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1. If you search Google or other search engines, this is what you will see:
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2. I’m aware of this.
3. I’m talking about the scroll bar to view different parts of a site. The problem is that my footer takes too much place. What I want is a home page that can be completely viewed on 17 inch screens and above. How can I change this?
4. Thanks for the info.
What you posted is similar to what you see on Yahoo. Google gives something different.
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Part of you problem is that the different engines parse the page differently. You were on the right track with the meta tags but if you want ‘control’ you may be disappointed.
Screen size isn’t the whole story. The same physical screen can support multiple resolutions and that changes the apparent size of things on the screen. Try it. You can usually right click on a Windows desktop and find the screen control panel in the popup. But screen size plus resolution isn’t the whole story either because the viewing space available to your site is the browser window not the computer screen, and a lot of things change the size of the browser window.
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So why is Google and Yahoo displaying weird information and not my meta description? Am I missing something?
None of the search engines are obligated to use your meta-anything. Google claims to use some meta tags as part of its analysis, but also claims to stress page content above all. This has been the case for a long time and from what I’ve read it stems from the rampant abuse of meta tags in the early years. Like I said, don’t expect control. Just hope for influence.
Hey there, I think I had a similar problem to to Kev5 and I figured out I had competing meta tags. There’s a pretty easy fix, but to save typing and credit those who help me figure it out – I write about my solution here: http://chrisdigital.chriscarvey.com/518/wordpress/wordpress-themes-duplicate-meta-description-tags-and-seo
