Hello,
My site’s homepage had an error through Ahref’s audit where it’s saying my Meta “Title” and “Description” is missing. I have set this through Shopify admin already but for some reason it is missing from my code.
You can see this issue when opening page source and the “og” descriptions are there. Not the main one descriptions that are needed for crawl and seo purposes.
Please advise how this can be fixed. I also installed an SEO app a while back and recently uninstalled it. Not sure if this may be causing the issue.
Hello @NolanShaw
To provide you with the most precise solution in this case, could you please share your page URL ( with pass if your store password is enabled )?
Thank you and hope to hear from you.
Best regards,
GemPages Support Team
as I understand you found out that google search has not updated the title and description you enter in Shopify admin, right?
I’m seeing the title and description :
Are they not what you want?
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Hi @NolanShaw
Have you set up Google Search Console for your store? If you are making changes to your store pages and not been getting consistent traffic, Google does not necessarily hold the latest copy of your pages as they don’t get crawled regularly.
You need to let Google know using Google Search Console and request for them to reindex your pages. After informing them, you’ve to wait patiently for a few weeks to be updated on Google search.
Cheers,
Clarice
Yes you are correct, that is the title and meta description but it is the “og” description. This is for social previewing. My stores title and meta des is blank. You can see it above the code you circled in red. I have outlined it in black for you.
If you preview other stores, the green section above the “og” section will have the meta title and description described. This is what is crawled and not the “og” descriptions below.
The description you are seeing during serp is my H1 tag and the description for that. My meta title/des is not being read because it does not exist in my code for crawlers. Let me know if that makes sense.
Ive attached what it should look like from another store. Please see both references.
Yes GSC has been setup. Ive detailed the issue in my response to @GemPages above. The issue is beyond GSC I believe.
Hello @NolanShaw
I’m sorry for delay.
I understood your problem. Now, could you pls share the theme’s code so I can check ? pls follow the steps below :
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Go to your Online store > Themes > Edit code
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Open your theme.liquid file
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Find : like this:
and make sure you have entered all the information here:
Hope to hear from you.
Best regards,
GemPages Support Team
Hey @GemPages sorry I just seen your response. I had to take two screenshots since the code would cut off. Let me know your thoughts.
Hey @GemPages have you had a chance to review this?
Hi @NolanShaw
I have double-checked your question shared here, and I believe there should exist original meta title and meta description codes on your website before, installing any related SEO Apps. But after installing SEO Apps, some of them will include their own meta title and meta description codes and comment original meta title and meta description codes in the system. Therefore, when you uninstalled related SEO Apps, their included or rendered meta title and meta description codes will not be effective, and because the original meta title and meta description codes are commented, the missing meta Title and meta description issue.
To resolve this issue, you need to check the code in theme.liquid file by searching with the keyword “” and then replace the existing code contents with below original code found from the Shopify original version in the theme or delete the comment-related codes.
{% if page_description %}
{% endif %}
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