A few of my pages that have made it to google are not showing the description/summary on the google page. After my link, it shows either my author Bio or another piece of irrelevant information. Any way to fix this? I feel like Id be more hits if showed what that post was about rather than my name and bio.
Good evening mister geekystone. You can send an email to google help support and ask to help you fix the problem in your link. They are very good at helping people. They can probably guide you. So you can fix it from your own device. I read a similar situation with another writer a while back. Good luck and have a great night.
Is it possible that you might have inadvertently not created a summary for the article(s) in question?
You said it’s using your Bio or other irrelevant information. Your Bio is the first sentence in your article, and Google usually takes the first sentence or other section as the description if it doesn’t see a description meta tag in the HTML, which would be your summary.
They Are Definitely there, seems to be exemplore mainly, which is a newer network correct? Maybe something with that.
I think it's worth checking what Glenn suggested.
However, I've noticed that it can be a bit random what Google pulls up on the SERPs page. Most of the time, it does pull up the summary, but not always. I have issues too sometimes and I don't know why.
That's probably not the helpful answer that you were looking for. Just saying that I think it's maybe a common issue.
We writers may not be able to fix it. Maybe HP can, but it's most likely a Google glitch that only they can mend.
Thanks for the information. I think it's mainly on exemplore that I seeing my bio.
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