SEO meta description does not appear as it should

Technical Q&A
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Hello,

eventhough I have set a different Meta description, it does not appear as such in the search engine.

Can you please advise on how can I fix it?

Thank you

Katka

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Hi Katka,

After you make changes to your meta description, it doesn’t get updated in Google automatically. You have to indicate to Google that there are changes to your pages and get Google to re-index a new copy of your website in their database.

This is done by setting up Google search console and sending a request for reindexing. You can check out my YouTube video to set up Google Search Console if you have not done that already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ3BQhcrEJg

After sending the request to Google, you have to wait for a few days (or longer) for indexing to complete if your website is a small site with not much traffic as Google prioritizes indexing for sites with a huge volume of visitors.

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hi @Katerina_98

I hope you are doing good and welcome to the Shopify Community!

I am Mehak from MS Web Designer (Top Rated Shopify Certified Experts and eCommerce Consultant from Singapore).

  1. First of all, I am assuming that you have already changed the SEO Meta Title and Meta Description with the help of Rank Math:
  2. Then, ensure that this is the setting in the Schema tab if Schema Markup module is enabled on your website:

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To reiterate, the Schema title must show %seo_title% and the description should show %seo_description% – this will ensure your SEO title and SEO Description that you set up via Rank Math can also be used for your schema details:

  1. The next step is to check if your title/description is properly set up in the page source:

You can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/

  1. If it matches your settings, then you must check if Google has seen the changes already or not.

For that, please check when the Google cache was updated for that page:

-If the cache date is from before adding the new meta description, then you just have to wait for Google to re-crawl and re-index the page with the new info. If the date is after you made the changes, then you just have to wait it out and there is no further input needed from your end.

-Do note that if everything’s fine and Google still decides to show a different meta title/description for your search keyword, there is nothing you can do as Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and show something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better.

Here are some of the common reasons Google might not use the meta description you provided:

– The meta description is not relevant or useful (ie, just a collection of keywords).

– The exact same meta description is provided across a large number of pages.

– The meta description doesn’t match what the user is searching for, but other content on

The best you can do is optimize your meta tags to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.

Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.

Regards,

Mehak