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@kingsofazon, as Joost suggested, I extended the length of my meta description. I also switch from the Sharebar to Get Social. The problem was resolved after that.

@mikeotgaar

I appreciate your advice. I was able to locate the code to be deleted in the header.php file. Now WordPress SEO is back to normal. Thanks for your help!

I think I have found a solution to my problem. In the Options section, you can uncheck the setting to log actual redirects. I’m hoping that this will address the clutter of having to sift through 50+ pages of data on a daily basis. I have left the option to log 404 not found requests unchanged.

Hi Martin,

I appreciate you sharing your challenge and will go ahead and install the version 2.2.10 that you mentioned to see if that helps.

Regards,
Sharon

I just wanted to update you that I am no longer having Google insert weird words in my meta description due to the presence of the Sharebar. As you suggested, extending the length of the description really helped. The whole exercise made me rethink my whole approach to writing meta descriptions by focusing on what the site has to offer rather than the value of the specific page showing up in the SERP.

I have taken your advice and have lengthened the meta description a bit. The Google SERP no longer has any extra words in the description. I have now re-activated the Sharebar plugin and am monitoring the results over the next 48 hours to see if everything is okay.

Thanks a lot for your help.

The search query in Google.com is “sand ceremony” and the URL is https://www.unitysandceremony.net/unity-sand-ceremony/

I HAVE written a specific meta desciption but Google is choosing not to use it. Like I mentioned before I did not have this problem when I was using Headspace2. I have spent a significant amount of time migrating to WordPress SEO and configuring it and am determined to resolve this problem.

I would also like to go back to using the Sharebar. Unfortunately when I use it, I have “Tweet This Email This” appear in the MIDDLE of the first sentence of the Google SERP. This significantly affected the clickthrough rate until I deactivated it and temporarily switched to the FB Share button, which now adds “Share” to the beginning of the description that Google is choosing to present.