Translated version of meta description showing in SERPs
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Hi all,
When a search for our brand is done, the homepage is shown but the meta description is in French. We have a translated version of the site available once the user is on the site, but there's no reason it should be displaying the translated version in the SERPs. This issue has never happened before and began last week. Anyone seen anything similar?
https://www.google.com/search?q=revolve+clothing
Thanks.
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I suggest you to dig into the possible issues Dirk is talking about, especially if there are some JavaScript and cookies on the works.
In fact, I have seen several cases where a not perfect JavaScript use may end up screwing things.
i.e.: I go to domain.com - english - and then go to its russian version - domain.ru - from the selector and then go back to domain.com, but now the version I see is the russian in domain.ru because of bad JScript and cookie management.
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The issue you have is quite similar to the issue you had previously https://moz.com/community/q/sitelinks-issue-different-languages - the same answers apply.
When I check the cached version of the .com version I get the French site
Personally I think you're IP detection system is messing things up. Checking your headers (from Belgium) I get this:
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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
http://www.revolveclothing.com/ HTTP/1.1 302 Found
http://www.revolveclothing.com/?nrv=true HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
http://www.revolveclothing.fr/r/Homepage.jsp?nrv=true HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Am I wrong saying that the french will be shown specifically for people in France? I mean, there are french-canadians, belgium, african countries, etc. I'm not sure it is necessary in this case? If the hreflangs are in place, I believe it should be enough.
Otherwise there is a strange thing happening with your URLs when switching languages with the top right tool. When you are on the homepage and switch languages, the URL doesn't change, but the content does.
When I'm on http://www.revolveclothing.com/content/hotlist in English
And switch to French = http://www.revolveclothing.com/content/hotlist
When I switch to Spanish http://www.revolveclothing.com/content/hotlist.Would it be part of the problem? Maybe it is worth troubleshooting. If it's not clear which version is which.
If it's the French version that Google wants to show, it should be the http://www.revolveclothing.fr. Not the .com
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Hi Jarred,
Issues like this are usually connected to hrefang tag. I noticed you've got those in place, but the country element is missing. Try updating your American (.com) and French (.fr) hreflang tags to the following:
The additional specificity might be what you need to override that mistake by Google and get your meta descriptions back to normal. Hopefully this works, as I didn't see anything else on either TLD that would cause this.
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Not only metadata is in French - whole homepage is in French!:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Acm7RY_EpzEJ:www.revolveclothing.com/&hl=en&gl=bg&strip=1&vwsrc=0Seems that bot index this content in French. You need to go in SearchConsole and reindex this page and put to index.
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