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  • January 28, 2015 at 1:20 am #386727
    loxoma

    i have plenty of meta tags and a well formed description on the site, the google index shows “Initializing… stage: 500×375 file …”

    if you google that, you find, that a few other pages have the same problem. how do i put the meta-tags in front of the video-initializing? even manually just for the homepage?

    thanks for your help
    best
    axel

    January 28, 2015 at 5:25 pm #387161
    Elliott

    Hey loxoma!

    Your meta description tag seems to be set properly.

    Have you tried viewing your site through the google webmaster tools? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

    Do that and have it fetch your site again and check to see if it sees the description.

    Regards,
    Elliott

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 10 months ago by Elliott.
    January 28, 2015 at 10:24 pm #387429
    loxoma

    Hi Elliott,

    yes, i have tried the webmaster-tools a couple of days ago but they don’t show relevant data yet…
    any other ideas?

    best
    axel

    January 30, 2015 at 2:04 am #388073
    loxoma

    Hi Elliott,

    any news? There is a little more webmaster-tools data… the crawled content keywords have nothing to do with the content. it seems that the google bot stops at that video-initializing point.

    those are the keywords:
    1. true
    2. false
    3. loxoma
    4. video
    5. dimension
    6. dont
    7. err
    8. have
    9. native
    10. positioning
    11. externalinterface
    12. fullscreen
    13. setfullscreen
    14. 500×375
    15. adding
    16. autoplay
    17. available
    18. callbacks
    19. content
    20. displaystate
    21. file
    22. homepage
    23. initializing
    24. isvideo
    25. mp4

    what can i do besides take out the video?

    best
    axel

    January 30, 2015 at 11:29 pm #388604
    Elliott

    Hey!

    I’m not sure what it could be. Send us a WordPress login so I can see the exact settings and URLs your using and I’ll try reproducing it on my personal site.

    Best regards,
    Elliott

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Elliott.
    January 31, 2015 at 12:03 am #388631
    loxoma
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    February 2, 2015 at 6:28 pm #389530
    Elliott

    Hi!

    Hmm, not sure what it could be. What happens when you create a new page and set the title + description? Does it display in the SERPS ok?

    After fetching the URL with the Google webmaster tools try clicking on the “Submit to index” button and then wait 10 minutes and clear your browser cache.

    I’ll go ahead and flag this for the rest of our team to take a look.

    Cheers!
    Elliott

    February 2, 2015 at 7:58 pm #389607
    loxoma
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    February 2, 2015 at 7:59 pm #389612
    loxoma
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    February 4, 2015 at 10:27 pm #390964
    loxoma

    Hi Elliott+Team,

    any news?

    Best
    Axel

    February 5, 2015 at 6:46 pm #391541
    Elliott

    Hi!

    What happens when you deactivate the WordPress SEO plugin and wait a day or two? Perhaps there is a setting in there which is interfering.

    The title and description are being set correctly in your source code so I’m kind of stumped why google SERPS is not grabbing them. Does it do the same in the default WordPress theme?

    I would try asking this on the google forums, https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters, to see if they have any suggestions.

    Regards,
    Elliott

    February 5, 2015 at 9:13 pm #391670
    loxoma

    Hi Elliott,
    deactivating the SEO tool wouldn’t make sense… the testpage i created worked fine – same template, same seo plugin… the video seems to be the problem.

    i’ll try the google forum

    best
    axel

    February 6, 2015 at 9:30 am #391877
    loxoma

    Hi Elliott,
    he has a point…. what do i do do clean up the template, because i haven’t changed a thing…
    https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/d/msgid/webmasters/445fa68d-3f0c-4fd7-9743-3495fdb6abc1%40googleproductforums.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

    best
    axel

    February 6, 2015 at 10:32 pm #392303
    Elliott

    Hey!

    Your header looks fine to me but perhaps the extra styles and roboto font above your title and description meta tags could be causing problems. They are being added from the google maps in your page. I would try removing the map just to see if it’s really causing the problem or not.

    Also try adding the robots meta tag to your header that Adam was referring to by adding this to the bottom of your functions.php file.

    add_action( 'wp_head', 'enfold_customization_extra_headers' );
function enfold_customization_extra_headers() {
     echo '<meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir">';
}

    And then submit your homepage to the webmaster tools again. I’m not sure how long it takes for Google to crawl your site though. I’m guessing at one point you had an error or a weird tag that was breaking your header and Google just hasn’t crawled your site again yet.

    Best regards,
    Elliott

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Elliott.
    June 11, 2015 at 5:43 pm #457931
    CB

    Hi Elliott,

    we’re recognizing the same problem. Do you know if this issue was fixed by adding the last code you provided or by removing the map?
    Are there any updates on this in general?

    Thanks a lot in advance!
    Best,
    DC_Media

    June 12, 2015 at 6:12 am #458174
    Ismael

    Hey!

    I’m not sure if it works but you can refer to this link for a possible fix: https://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description

    Don’t forget to read number 5.

    Regards,
    Ismael

    June 12, 2015 at 1:25 pm #458319
    CB

    Hey Ismael,

    thanks for your quick response! Actually the <meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir"> did it for us.

    A small hint on this – if you have YOAST SEO installed, you could actually just activate this tag in the admin backend.

    Thanks a lot!

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