A Shopify store owner reports that Google displays a different meta description than what’s configured in their shop settings. They’re seeking to understand why Google isn’t recognizing their set meta description.
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Status: The issue remains unresolved. One participant offered to review the store’s source code if the URL is provided to verify proper meta description implementation.
I’ve often read that Google displays a different meta description for Shopify stores than the one set in the shop itself. The reason seems to be that Google doesn’t recognize the provided meta description and instead pulls a different snippet from the landing page.
So my question is: Why doesn’t Google recognize the meta description set in the Shopify editor?
Looks like your theme does not output this properly.
Theme demo store:
Yours:
Was it modified?
An app could also alter your theme code – have you had any SEO apps installed?
Also, as it’s always the case with Google, they have their own algorithms to decide and your meta description is only a suggestion for them.
They may parse your page and decide that other text better represents your page content.
@info_5248 The screenshot you shared here refers to product title and product description page, rather than meta description contents.
Please check if you edited the meta title and meta description before from Shopify Preference page. If it is edited before, then your issue in this topic is due to the broken code contents in theme.liquid file, need to correct and update, so that Google can recognize the update your written meta description properly.
If available, you can also choose to share the store URL and I can check from source code page to verify if your meta description is okay or not.
