Hello,
I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with Google displaying the same meta description for many search results. Thank you for providing the screenshots and the details of your Rank Math setup.
Based on the information you’ve provided, it seems that you have set the ‘Single Page Description’ in Rank Math to %excerpt%. This is a valid setting, and it should work correctly to provide individual page descriptions to Google.
However, there are a few other factors that could be causing Google to display the same meta description for multiple pages. These include the relevance and quality of the meta description, as well as whether the page has been indexed by Google.
To ensure that Google uses the correct page description, I recommend checking whether the latest version of your page has been indexed by Google. You can do this by checking the Google cache date for your page. Here’s how you can do that:
- Go to Google and search for your page.
- Click on the small, downwards-pointing arrow next to the domain in the search results.
- Click on Cached to view the details, including the date when Google last cached your page.
If the cache date is from before adding the new meta description, you may need to wait for Google to re-crawl and re-index the page with your updated meta title and description.
Additionally, it’s important to ensure that your meta descriptions are relevant, useful, and of high quality. If they are just a collection of keywords or if they are not matching what users are searching for, Google may choose not to use them.
I hope this helps! If you have any further questions or need assistance with anything else, please feel free to ask.
Sources:
Google Shows A Different Meta Title/Description For My Site » Rank Math
Rank Math ‘Titles and Meta’ Options and Settings
Hello,
We have checked the meta description of your homepage, and it is already appearing fine in the page’s source code.
To ensure that the meta title and description you have set are already applied, you can verify that using these tools:
https://heymeta.com
https://rankmath.com/tools/meta-tag-analyzer/
Please note that Google sometimes ignores the custom meta info altogether and shows something from the page’s content that matches the search intent better. In this case, the best you can do is optimize your meta title and description to try and match the intent of the search/keyword.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/#meta-description-rewrites
Hope that helps.
Ok, thank you Reinelle. Thanks for confirming it is set up correctly
Hello,
We are super happy that we could address your concern. 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.
