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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
axelHey 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,
ElliottHi 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
axelHi 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. mp4what can i do besides take out the video?
best
axelHi!
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!
ElliottHi!
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,
ElliottHi 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
axelHi 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=footerbest
axelHey!
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,
ElliottHi 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_MediaHey!
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
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