Different posts display the same description

Hi @jedan,

Thanks for reaching out!

Unfortunately, Google doesn’t have to use the SEO title and description you provide and never has.

They take what you provide as a suggestion and will return what they think is the best, most relevant title and description based on the term that’s being searched for. This process is completely automated, and Google can’t be forced to display the desired title and description.

This is not specific to All in One SEO, but just how Google works.

You can have a look at this thread at Google regarding a similar case: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/19762370/website-meta-description-is-showing-my-footer-text-instead-of-of-my-meta-description?hl=en

We have an article about this here (https://aioseo.com/docs/why-doesnt-the-title-and-description-i-set-appear-in-search-results/) and Google has their official documentation about this here:

• Controlling title links in search results: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/title-link
• Controlling descriptions in search results: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/snippet

The best approach here is further optimizing the SEO Description of those pages to better describe the page’s content and match the user’s search intent, and hopefully, Google would use the set description in the future.

I highly recommend reading this guide for more details: https://aioseo.com/docs/quality-guidelines-for-seo-titles-and-descriptions/

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

Well that’s ridiculous. What’s the point of writing a description when it won’t show up in Google search results?!

Hi @jedan,

The purpose of the meta description is to provide Google with a brief summary of your content. This is part of SEO and has been for decades. Google may use the meta description if they think it best answers the search term that’s been entered.

You can learn more about what Google expects from site owners in their SEO Starter Guide here – https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide#descriptionmeta