Where to enter description that shows in browsers

  • nancy9838

    (@nancy9838)


    3 years ago

    I am very new at this so I hope this is the place for a general question. I have found where to enter a tagline after my site title but I can’t find where I can enter the text that I would like to show up under the title in searches. Right now it just shows the fill text.
    I didn’t know if this was a WordPress question or if it is connected with the theme.
    Thank you,
    Nancy

    • This topic was modified 3 years ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • threadi

    (@threadi)

    I assume you are referring to the search results on Google or other search engines. Which text is displayed there by Google is Google’s decision based on various factors, e.g. the search term entered by the user in relation to the content of the page.

    You can provide a recommendation for the text from your website – the so-called meta description, which should consist of a maximum of 200 characters. You cannot specify this in WordPress without additional plugins. You could look at the following plugins, for example:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-seo/
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/

    You cannot influence whether Google uses the text or not. However, it is likely that it will happen.

    If you mean a different text, we would probably need a concrete example here.

    Thread Starter nancy9838

    (@nancy9838)

    Thank you, that’s exactly what I meant and it’s more complicated than I thought. I’ll check out the links you gave me.
    Nancy

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