Q: about filling in the snippet

Hello @predjee!

You need to have a snippet for every post/page and you have 2 options to do this. You can either set snippet variables or set a custom snippet for each of your posts and pages by populating the SEO data on the Yoast SEO meta box. You can find the Yoast SEO meta box underneath your content box when you edit a post or page.

Hi Rumejan,

Thank you for your reply.

So about this yoast seo meta box. For every page i copy pasted the same text and header.

Still, when i go to google and google: onlinegardenshop.nl

The snippet is tottaly messed up for every page. If i was a customer and saw that Sh*t i would think: what shabby store is this, i go somewhere else :’)

How do i fix the snippet issue if the problem is not having the seo metabox filled in for every page?

Edit: so i just checked and it seems suddenly google is showing improvements. I took my message, but only took 2 sentences and left the third one out. Anyone who can eleborate on why this is happening?

My competitor is right below me, and his snipper is showing a extra line of tekst.

Why is my snippet leaving out that line of text, altough in the seo meta box by yoast there is actually text on the third line…

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by predjee.

Hi @predjee,

Thank you for your reply.

There are a couple of things here that you might need to be aware of.

First, having the same meta description for all or multiple pages is not recommended. All pages on your site should have a clear meta title and description of what the page entails. This means that you can set defaults under SEO → Search Appearance → Content Types → Pages, but we would recommend optimizing your most important pages if not all manually. More information on meta descriptions can be found on our blog here: https://yoast.com/meta-descriptions/. For the meta titles, please check this out: https://yoast.com/page-titles-seo/.

Second, please know that changing anything related to all of the metadata is not directly updated in Google or any other search engine. They need to revisit your page and see the changes that were made since the last time they scanned the page.

Last, please know that even when you configure a meta title or description, that is is a suggestion for the search engines what to use. Depending on a lot of factors, this is by no means a guarantee that Google is going to be using this for any search term. We have more information on this here: https://yoast.com/help/my-meta-descriptions-arent-showing-up-in-the-search-result-pages/ and here: https://yoast.com/help/my-meta-descriptions-arent-showing-up-in-the-search-result-pages/.

Hope this helps.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Jeroen Rotty. Reason: added more links

Hi Jeroen,

Thanks, that clears a lot of things in my mind.

What i will do is manually put a description for every page and not clone the same text on all pages.

Thing is, i just tried google again and now it shows this: You have some jquery.js library include that comes after the Slider Revolution files js inclusion.

I dont know if this is related or that i just created a new problem haha.

Another thing i wondered about is does all of the above also counts for keywords?

Can i for example place a general keyword about my store on the frontpage, and a descriptive keyword -for example- on my product page?

Hi @predjee,

Thing is, I just tried to google again and now it shows this: You have some jquery.js library include that comes after the Slider Revolution files js inclusion.
We are not sure what you tried? Can you elaborate?

Can I, for example, place a general keyword about my store on the front page, and a descriptive keyword -for example- on my product page?
We think you are mixing up the old keywords with the focus keyphrase. The focus keyphrase should the keyphrase you want the page or post to be found for. Keywords are not being output on the page, more on this here.

Hi @predjee,

We are going ahead and mark this topic as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new forum topic. Thank you!