Wrong Descriptions for Title's on Google SERP?
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I put descriptions in for each of my product categories a couple months ago and a few of my category pages rank high. The problem is that most of my category pages have the wrong meta description on the SERP. The descriptions that are shown sometimes have the home page description, which isn't a big deal, but some have descriptions of different products and most have descriptions of sub categories. Below is an example of a subcategory description (specialty feeders) for a main category:
Co-matic Power Feeders - Products - Shop Gear Inc
<cite>www.shopgearinc.com/products/co-matic-power-feeders/</cite>Specialty Feeders. Specialty Co-matic feeders are built for use on a variety of machines and for specific operations. Shop Gear supplies a variety of specialty **...****Any Suggestions?**Thanks
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I second that. Google is creating it's own snippets for the search results rather than using your description because your category descriptions are all the same. Easy fix.
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Hey Kyle,
I think that your problem is that you have the same (duplicate) category meta description for all categories, so Google discards it as being irrelevant. Your product meta descriptions on the other hand are unique, so they show up fine.
The solution would be to create unique descriptions for each category and subcategory.
Hope this helps, cheers!
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