Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support. We’re sorry for the trouble you’re facing.
To help you better, we need to see the URL of the page where you’re having the issue. You can share it with us privately by using the sensitive data section.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math. Have a wonderful day!
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
We’ve checked your page and we can see that Rank Math has added the correct meta description to your page. You can also check this by using tools like https://www.heymeta.com/.
However, indeed Google is not showing the meta description for your page on SERPs. Nowadays, Google does that very commonly. Even when everything is fine, Google may choose to display a different meta description or no description for your search query result. Google may skip the custom meta data you have set and instead display something from the page’s content that better matches the search intent.
You can follow this URL for details on this issue:
https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/
Here’s an article you can also check for reference:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-google-rewrites-meta-descriptions/370452/
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Thanks for the reply. Is it possible to force google to crawl the pages again?
Hello @leokong,
Thank you for getting back to us.
We understand that you want to see your meta description on Google search results. However, Google sometimes decides to show a different or no description for your site, depending on the search query and the user intent. You can read more about why this happens and how to optimize your meta description here: https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/#meta-description-rewrites
If you still want to try to force Google to recrawl your site and update your meta description, you can follow these simple steps:
- Go to the Google Search Console sitemaps page
- Remove and delete your current sitemap
- Add a new sitemap. Use a different version of your sitemap, i.e. https://yourdomain.com/?sitemap=1. This sitemap is exactly the same as your default sitemap – but because of the new URL, Google would be forced to recrawl it.
- Wait for Google to crawl your site again and see if the error is gone.
I hope that helps, let me know if you need help with anything else.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math.
Hello @noahwillliam,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.
We’re sorry to hear that you’re having some trouble with Rank Math. We’d love to help you out, but we need some more details from you. Can you please explain what the issue is and what you’re trying to do with Rank Math? You can also share some screenshots with us to show us the problem. You can use imgur.com/upload to upload your images and send us the links.
The more information you can provide, the better we can assist you.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math
Thank you for the advice. I will try it.
By the way, one suggestion from the plugin suggests – The Focus Keyword was not found in the URL. But, my website is not in English but Chinese. How can I add Chinese to URL without showing un-recognized code?
Hello,
The focus keyword in permalink test looks for an exact match of words in the URL.
However, Search Engines are smart enough to understand that you’re trying to rank for that keyword. Also, these tests are just guidelines, and one does not need to follow them religiously. If you feel any of them doesn’t apply to your page, please feel free to ignore them.
Alternatively, you can disable that test so it won’t get included in the score by applying this filter:
/**
* Filter to disable Keyword in Permalink test
*/
add_filter('rank_math/researches/tests', function ($tests, $type) {
unset($tests['keywordInPermalink']);
return $tests;
}, 10, 2 );
And here’s a guide to adding the code to the website:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hello,
You’re welcome. We’re glad to hear that you found our advice helpful. Thank you for choosing Rank Math for your SEO needs.
Is there anything else we can assist you with? Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We’re always happy to help.
Have a wonderful day!
Thanks everyone for the replies.
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
