survivorshrine
09-10-2008, 03:07 AM
So I have been looking at Google.com and they keep posted the first couple pixels of text on my page (which really doesn't describe what my site has to offer). I have meta tags that say what I want the page to be titled as well as a description. How do I go about getting it to say what I have in my meta tags as opposed to the content on my page?
Many thanks in advance.
http://www.survivorshrine.com/gabon if you need to see the page to see why it is doing this.
knoppix_
09-10-2008, 04:12 AM
in the <head> tag add:
<meta name="Description" content="Your Description Here">
It might take a little bit before google crawls your website again and re-indexes your updated description.
sammy659
09-10-2008, 04:15 AM
your description-tag seems to be ok (although the rest of your code is pretty messy...) maybe google crawled your site before you put the meta-tag online?
survivorshrine
09-10-2008, 04:39 AM
thanks for the help guys!
any idea how often google crawls? i hear things as short as a day and as long as 3 months.
also, any idea how I can "clean" up my coding. i basically upload my file based on what frontpage spits out for me.
aqaz69
09-10-2008, 08:50 AM
Its depends mostly on 2 things:
1)how many (quality) backlinks there are to your page and
2)how often you update with fresh content.
Good luck!
gamernz
09-10-2008, 09:30 AM
For help with Google in particular you might wish to sign up with Google Webmaster Tools, which are available to access with a Google (Gmail) account. You can even add a site map for Google to crawl there.
barry100
09-15-2008, 02:35 PM
changing the description will not happen over night .. google now uses the description tag for most websites but some times the description is still now shown
