Meta description is different from og:description

I ams till searching for a solution on this. Any help?

viewing your page source it doesn’t look like WPseo is enabled. If it is it should pick up the correct descriptions – right now it looks to be falling back to the on-page content.

Hey Chuck, thanks for your response,
wpSEO and running on this page:
https://contentmarketing.ch/ein-besuch-im-google-zoo-teil-2/

Meta description:
<meta name="description" content="Eine Spitzenposition zu ergattern ist gerade bei beliebten Keywords oft ein hartes Stück Arbeit." />

But the OG Description is:
<meta property="og:description" content="Google ist zur Zeit die mit Abstand meistgenutzte Suchmaschine. Wer seine eigene Website unter einem Money-Keyword weit oben bei Google platzieren kann, darf si"/>

So there’s a difference, I can’t explain… can you?

Hm no, that’s not resolved yet…

Hey,
in fact we use wpSEO an all our 12 Websites listed on https://agentur-belmedia.ch (except of comback.ch which is joomla based)

For example, on this blogpost on newsbloggers.ch:

<meta name="description" content="Im Sp?tsommer liegen bereits die ersten Lebkuchen in den Regalen." />
but
<meta property="og:description" content=""/>

Now what happens here? Because the og:description is empty, facebook takes the correct meta description. But why is og:description empty anyway? Hm, questions…

Still waiting for help on this issue.

so you’ve listed a few different domains here… i’m looking at contentmarketing.ch/ein-besuch-im-google-zoo-teil-2/ and i see this.

<meta property="og:description" content="Google ist zur Zeit die mit Abstand meistgenutzte Suchmaschine. Wer seine eigene Website unter einem Money-Keyword weit oben bei Google platzieren kann, darf si"/>

I don’t know if that’s right or wrong so it’s hard for me to test it. Also if WPSEO is already pulling the correct descriptions for your sites then turn on his OG stuff and mine off and see if that solves the problem.

on this one newsbloggers.ch/2014/09/15/ja-ist-denn-schon-wieder-weihnachten/ I can see it doesn’t pull a description at all; but I see it doesn’t have WPSEO on either? So maybe it should pull the sitename but should be pulling content from the body? Not sure how the post/theme is setup there. put in an excerpt and it should show fine.

It’s hard to test when idk what the correct result is and I don’t have a lot of access and don’t know how the theme(s) are built.

The plugin lists how it pulls descriptions – if you’re not following that flow then it should default to pulling excerpt content from the post. put in an excerpt and test that too.

Hm, how do you see that wpSEO isn’t activated on newsbloggers? In fact, it is and it gives out the description:

<meta name="description" content="Im Sp?tsommer liegen bereits die ersten Lebkuchen in den Regalen." />

wpSEO always uses only the first sentence until a full stop. That’s not the case for content-marketing – it just cuts of the end.

I will try another plugin and check if it has similar problems and then come back.