Thursday, September 22, 2016

SEO: Your Site description in Google search

When you search for something Google displays results with site/page description snippets.
Those could be either auto-generated from the keywords in page context or meta description snippet.
I bet, you could describe, what is your site about much more precisely, than search engine can assume, right?


Specify your own Meta-Description

To provide a short description of the page, you need to add meta name="description" content="..." into your page header:
*Note: It's not guaranteed, that this description will be picked, but if it's accurate enough, most probably it would be.

When it will be updated in Google?

Well, Google will decide it by itself :)
It could take from few hours to a couple of days.
Actually, you're able to check when the last cache update happened to verify whether your description was considered or not. Just click on the small arrow at the end of the domain name:


It will open the site with the details about its snapshot on the top, like:
This is Google's cashe of http://your.domain/. It is snapshot of the page as it appeared on Sep 21, 2016 04:16:12 GMT
The current page could have changed in meantime. Learn more

So, do not worry - patience is a key here :)

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