seo meta description issue in google search

distro_dave

This is my first time to use Yoast SEO plugin in my website, I'm trying to add meta description to every pages and every post in my website. When I search it on google, seems like the meta description does not show at all, instead google take the content from the website page as the meta description. When I looked at the page source, there is a content that I set in Yoast SEO as my meta description For keywords part that I put in my SEO, when I...

Originally asked by Budi Loka Wijaya on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

An easier way to check what is happening is to check the source code of your pages where the meta description is added through Yoast <meta name="description" <meta property="og:description" content=" Check what the above values say and if there is any conflict. If the text in the above meta fields are not as entered through Yoast then it may be a theme issue Also after you add the meta description it takes a while to show up. It will appear after google indexes your site again.

Full answer by WPIndex: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/218281 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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