Hi there! Does anyone know why on Google the meta description of the site appears as this? Instead of the description there are some random topics and data (my site is El Foro Viajero) [Screenshot_2021-04-07-17-04-08-81] On desktop, the meta description appears ok. [Captura de pantalla 2021-0…

Hi again. Is this a normal behaviour? I can’t change that at all…now in desktop search my forum doesn’t show the correct description either… [Captura de pantalla 2021-06-09 a las 11.28.16]

It’s the same for my case too. I hope Discourse fix this soon.

Yep..I tried a few times to let someone know. Hope this is fixed somehow

This is something which google is choosing to do - we don’t have any real control over it. I believe google is taking our HTML (which follows the ItemList schema), parsing the topic list, and then rendering the list directly in the search results.

Thanks for your reply @david I know other forums based in discourse like www.forobits.com that don’t have this issue: [Captura de pantalla 2021-06-09 a las 14.26.33] Maybe there’s a way to “force” Google to understand the meta description? My commynity looks kind of weird in the search results in…

[imagem] ElForoViajero: I know other forums based in discourse like www.forobits.com that don’t have this issue: Google decides what to show based on some internal logic. For example, if I search for forobits latest, I see the topic list view: [Screenshot 2021-06-09 at 13.29.30]

that would be really understandable from google when adding (latest) but not so much when searching only for “forobits”. Another example is when you look for a newspaper you get a metadescription and the news, not a list of news. Do you think this can’t be fixed at all and our communities will not s…

According to this article : The title tag and meta description are merely suggestions for what the search engines should display in the results. Google and Bing and other search engines are under no obligation to display exactly what you want them to display. So it’s really up to the search engin…

Thanks a lot for your feedback on this, I’ll try to change that description indeed. It looks much better on Bing than on Google. thanks!

Google exibindo lista de tópicos em vez de meta descrição

Suporte

ElForoViajero (elforoviajero) Junho 21, 2021, 2:55pm 10

Muito obrigado pelo seu feedback sobre isso. Vou tentar alterar essa descrição de fato. Ela parece muito melhor no Bing do que no Google. Obrigado!

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