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Hi Francisco,

Your site (I found listed on your profile) requires JavaScript to view. This forces Google to process your page in their rendered before displaying coherent information in SERP. Caveats are involved, and you may experience those right now.

For details, see https://web.dev/javascript-and-google-search-io-2019/ and https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/javascript-seo-basics.

Briefly:

1. Googlebot queues URLs for crawling.
2. It then fetches the URLs with an HTTP request based on the crawl budget.
3. Googlebot scans the HTML for links and queues the discovered links for crawling.
4. Googlebot then queues the page for rendering.
5. As soon as possible, a headless Chromium instance renders the page, which includes JavaScript execution.
6. Googlebot uses the rendered HTML to index the page.

For most sites, Google can postpone steps 4 through 6, and use the available content obtained at step 3.

To quickly see if Google is capable of reading your description tags, use a “site:”-query; for example, for our site, use this query in Google Search: site:theseoframework.com. To inspect a specific page (or directory), simply fill in the full URL after “site:”.

Such “site:”-query disables most post-processing of the metatags. With typical non-“site:”-queries, Google may alter the description to its best-efforts, that post-processing is explained here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624#meta-descriptions.

Summarized, when your search query’s keywords aren’t listed in the description, Google will supplement it with a (few) line(s) from your content that contains those keywords. That’s their “best-effort” ??

P.S. I don’t recommend using sitemap plugins in combination with The SEO Framework, because they aren’t aware of the indexing settings, which causes them to list posts that aren’t indexable.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Sybre Waaijer. Reason: clarity

Thank you very much for the fast and exact answer.

I understand from your excellent explanation that my website using Javascript can slow down crawling and, in the end, consume more crawl budget for less pages.

I have checked that search with site: and it seems that meta-description is getting indexed by google (but not showed for some queries due to the keyword appearance) and some pages marked with no index are indexed due to the sitemaps plugin(which I already uninstalled and problem solved, thanks again).

Two more questions.first one, is there a way to modify robots.txt file from your plugin? I have checked some options to modify the file(like no index categories or similar) and I see no changes.

Second question, does that “not fixed” Tag to meta title affect seo?

Hello again!

My apologies, your request got backlogged ??

No, there’s no method to change the robots.txt file with The SEO Framework. Search engines can ignore the robots.txt file, so appending custom rules is often futile. So, it’s better to direct them via robots meta-tags, which they always honor. Moreover, you can easily override the robots.txt file when you upload one to the root folder of your website (for example, on some servers, var/username/public_html/robots.txt).

The “not fixed” should be interpreted as “not branded”–as in, your brand name (site name) isn’t present in the title.

We’re unaware of the impact on SEO, but Google is prone to change the titles for you on their search results page when there’s no “marca”, so that might be undesired.

For more information, please see the links below.

Titles (Identifica tu sitio en los títulos): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=es

Robots.txt: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=es

I hope this explains the lot ?? Have a beautiful day!