Magento – magento meta description not showing

magento-1.9metaseo

I'm hoping someone out there can help me 🙂

I'm running Magento 1.9 – everything seems to be working pretty much out of the box, but I am having issues with the Meta Descrioptions not appearing correctly in Google results.

If I view the homepage source it has this:

<meta name="description" content="Up to date ladies fashion at affordable prices. " />

However the Google results look like:

Sitti Boutique
www.sittiboutique.co.uk/
Sitti Boutique. Sitti Boutique. Menu Search Account. Cart 0. Recently added item(s) ×. You have no items in your shopping cart. Dresses · Tops · Shorts ...

It is doing this to the homepage, category pages, and product pages.

Can anyone suggest anything please. I've had a look on the web, but can't seem to find anyone else thats had this issue.

I haven't changed the description for over a month, so Google should have picked this up.

If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate it.

Best Answer

What i understood that Google database still not updated.

You can do following

1)Generate sitemap.xml and place in your site root.

2)Put robot.txt in your site root.

3)Make your keyword formatted. Now there are many empty spaces before after.

It should be like follwing

<meta name="description" content="Up to date ladies fashion at affordable prices." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Fashion,boutique,ladies,dress,shirt,necklace" />

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Magento will fill the meta description for you.

You can change how that happens to automatically have some friendly snippet that reads well in the 150chrs of meta text.

You may want to put your efforts into semantic markup first. With that you get breadcrumbs in the search results and things like price recognised by the search engine. I would argue that this is more important than writing a gazillion descriptions if you are wanting to do what you can to improve search ranking.

Magento – Increase maximum chars for meta description

Update meta description maximum length via upgrade script

Use below code for update maximum length

/* @var $installer Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Mysql4_Setup */
$installer = $this;

$entityTypeId = $installer->getEntityTypeId('catalog_product');
$installer->updateAttribute($entityTypeId, 'meta_description', 'frontend_class', 'validate-length maximum-length-300');

$installer  = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/setup', 'catalog_setup');
$installer->startSetup();

$entityTypeId = $installer->getEntityTypeId('catalog_product');
$installer->updateAttribute($entityTypeId, 'meta_description', 'frontend_class', 'validate-length maximum-length-300');

$installer->endSetup();

By Default magento1 set maximum length: 255

Please see here defualt code app\code\core\Mage\Catalog\sql\catalog_setup\mysql4-upgrade-1.4.0.0.39-1.4.0.0.40.php

Best Answer

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