# Google doesn't show snippets of Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [20 december 2017 om 16:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491 "2017-12-20T16:44:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 16:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/1 "2017-12-20T16:44:57Z")

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Hiya, are you guys aware that Google seems to have issues indexing the site?

For the past week at least, I’ve seen multiple “No information is available for this page.” messages, with a non-useful [Learn Why](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7489871?hl=en) link.

Just thought I’d let you know, you might not Google yourself that often 🙂

 ![41](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/3/034827d20c3e92e6564ca699efb49910b1f1c831.png)

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### Author: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 17:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/2 "2017-12-20T17:01:37Z")

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Hey @Bas, thanks for the report, we are correcting the problem!

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 17:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/3 "2017-12-20T17:10:21Z")

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We fixed it now in site setting. Thank you @Bas

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 23:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/4 "2017-12-20T23:46:44Z")

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Hmm so @zogstrip changed the `robots.txt` here and forgot to change it back ❗ why did we even do that?

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 23:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/5 "2017-12-20T23:50:21Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> why did we even do that?

It was to test a bug when `allow_index_in_robots_txt` is disabled and `crawler_user_agents` is set to “`*`”.  
I reverted `crawler_user_agents` but forgot to revert `allow_index_in_robots_txt` 😑

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 23:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/6 "2017-12-20T23:50:55Z")

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OK so how long did we remove all of meta from google for? 😳

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 23:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/7 "2017-12-20T23:51:18Z")

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They were gone for 27 days…

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20 december 2017 om 23:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/8 "2017-12-20T23:51:41Z")

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Well thank goodness @Bas reported this then ❣

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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [21 december 2017 om 09:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/9 "2017-12-21T09:08:57Z")

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You’re welcome; wish I had reported it earlier 🙂

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [26 december 2017 om 17:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-doesnt-show-snippets-of-meta/76491/10 "2017-12-26T17:34:23Z")

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