Google description showing latest post excerpt
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In doing a search for our website, The Tech Block, I realized that our description is not showing what we have in our Yoast settings, but rather the content from the slider:
What can I do to fix this?
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After a lot of pain, we figure out some of the issues. Problem is that Google hasn't seemed to index everything we've fixed. My guess is that it's just a matter of time?
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Hey I see you got it fixed! Good job! What was the issue?
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I can't figure out for the life of me why that's happening. I have everything filled out properly in Yoast....
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Google wont display it until they crawl your site again but when I go to your website thetechblock.com and clear my cashe and view your source (Ctrl U) there is now no description at all.
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Hey Billy,
I've filled and published a description, for some reason it's not showing up in Google search...
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Go here and scroll down to section 1.3 - this should walk you through it.
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I don't see at all in the source code. The changes are published on Yoast...
Could really use some help.
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Here you go:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624
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I checked the source of your site and the description tag is empty...
Do you need to publish your changes?
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