_Styling in my SERP, why?_
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So Google is using an
tag for my SERP snippet and there is styling in that
that uses _and for some reason that _is showing up in the snippet itself. So "blah, blah blah, _19.99 _blah" is what is being displayed. How do I prevent this from happening? I thought styling within the header tags was fine?
So what I am trying to do basically:
Adventure Bear 16 oz
or
Adventure Bear 1.1oz
Is this allowed or am I making a terrible mistake here?
Thanks,
Chris Birkholm____ -
There are a couple of spots, such as the link title attribute ( <a title...="">where your tags are being translated into <em>. For example:</a>
<a title...=""></a> _<a title...=""></a><a <="" span="">href="</a>/store/stanley/en_US/pd/productID.325299600" title="Classic One Hand Vacuum Mug <em>20oz</em>">
Not sure what's going on, but might be an oddity in the CMS. I suspect Google is processing one of these instead of the actual text, but not sure why._
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I placed a link to the Google SERP above.
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Oh, strange. I would generally expect Google to just strip it out. I wonder if those tags are being processed in some odd way (like an unusual character set). Offhand, though, if browsers parse it, Google should be able to.
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So there were actually two meta descriptions on the page, one that was a default template thing that for some reason wasn't cleared so Google was reverting to using other copy. I obviously had that default MD removed but also understand that this wont immediately get Google to use the correct one and that this will take some time. Thanks though!
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It wasn't showing up italicized, it actually showed up with xxxx Rather than xxxx
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Agree with others - that style tag should be fine. May I ask, though - why does it matter? If you italicize the text in the header, what's wrong with having it italicized in the SERP snippet? It might actually stand out (in a good way).
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You are not making a terrible mistake here and styling in the header is fine. Google normally removes this. Care to share the SERP you are looking at?
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What you are doing should be fine i think.
Work around:
Did you set a proper title tag and metadescription? Using a metadescription with the requested keyword in it prevents google from using the content (most of the times)
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