meta description in rich snippet not correct

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    (@blogaid)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    The meta description in rich snippet is coming up as the first words on the page instead of the SEO meta description on my main site. I also have a test site and the rich snippet for it is correct.

    While searching for why, I checked my main site against a test site and found a few things different, and a few things the same. Don’t know what of them matter, or if there is another problem.

    In the source code:

    • Main site does not have the “This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin…” section remark.
    • Main site has a relative link for the canonical. It is leaving off http: The link starts with //www
    • The OG and Twitter descriptions are correct and same as the Yoast SEO meta description on the page.
    • The OG and Twitter descriptions in the Google Structured Data Testing Tool’s Custom Search Result Filter is correct on both sites.

    More details:

    • The settings in both plugins is the same, unless I missed something.
    • The plugin versions are the same on both sites.
    • The main site is running Genesis and a custom child theme. The test site is running just Genesis, no child theme.

    Main site page https://www.blogaid.net/about-maanna-stephenson/
    Test site page https://batesting.myblogaid.net/about-maanna-stephenson/

    Thanks for your help.

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  • Hi MaAnna ??

    Something on your main site is stripping the prefix off the majority of your URLs in your code. It’s not simply the canonical that is losing its prefix.

    Screenshot: https://screencast.com/t/CxTzku0vJgm

    Either you’ve missed a plugin or there’s some fancy footwork in the .htaccess that has not gotten copied to your test site.

    In what may be an unrelated note, the TEST site has a link to include a sitemap but has TWO http prefixes instead of one.

    Additionally, your main site does not have a SINGLE line of comment code in the code. Which is probably being done by some additional feature, tool, minify, etc. That’s not our doing, but ALL the comment code is missing, not just ours.

    In your main site – several of the social entries are included in duplicate – meaning you have more than one plugin adding them. For example: “twitter:description”. (I can’t tell which plugin, as generally that would be in the comment code, and you have none LOL!) That’s more than enough to totally muck a lot of things up.

    Screenshot: https://screencast.com/t/m7vpsjP9L0QK

    If you need additional personalized assistance to help you get this solved we also offer Premium support which you can learn more about at https://kb.yoast.com/article/160-support

    ~ Kim ~
    Support at Yoast

    Thread Starter BlogAid

    (@blogaid)

    Thanks so much Kim for taking a look. I had a major theme revamp and traded out a lot of plugins at the time too. Added one that may be duplicating the social tags. I can’t believe I missed that 2nd set!!! Thanks for catching it.

    For the stripped out comments, that’s probably the minification from CloudFlare. I don’t have the test site running through it.

    I’ll get those duplicates out and see if the SEO meta description gets picked up again.

    Thanks again for your help and delighted it’s not likely a Yoast issue after all!!!

    You’re quite welcome – and keep us posted ??

    ~ Kim ~
    Support at Yoast

    Thread Starter BlogAid

    (@blogaid)

    Kim, I’ve found the problems, and it will likely lead to another conflict warning in the Yoast plugin. I’m working with the other plugin devs and would be happy to work with y’all via back channels to resolve this properly before that conflict warning gets put in, and before I go public with setting changes and such.

    Thread Starter BlogAid

    (@blogaid)

    Kim, stripping out the comments is definitely CloudFlare minification and is fine.

    The social tag conflict is most definitely the Social Warfare plugin, and is what is causing the SEO issues. I’ve notified the devs, but they are working on other issues with their plugin and it may be a while before this gets fixed.

    The OG and Twitter settings have to be turned off in Yoast or they will double, hence the conflict warning y’all might want to put in.

    The SW code is above the Yoast code, which puts the tags out of order for what Google picks up. OG and Twitter are now above the meta name description.

    If there is a social media description in the SW plugin, then that’s what will get picked up. If it’s left blank, then the first text on the page/post is picked up. Never sees the Yoast meta description. So, triples the workload.

    Since SEO trumps shares, I’ve replaced the SW plugin on my main site for now, but still have it on the training site and happy to share my test results with you.

    Hi MaAnna,

    We appreciate you letting us know what is going on with that plugin.

    Is Social Warfare a GPL plugin?

    ~ Kim ~
    Support at Yoast

    Thread Starter BlogAid

    (@blogaid)

    No, it’s a premium plugin. They are working overtime to get this issue resolved.

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