HELP: Incorrect Meta Tag description showing for the wrong search results

[edward-may]

Hi Guys

I'm stuck here! I have update the hreftags, updated the sitemaps. I have 3 top level domains and my zenory.com site is showing for the home page the wrong meta tag description, as you can see in the attachement the meta tag is showing the new zealand site meta tag description which is for zenory.co.nz

Anyone know what might be going on here?

I have also fetched the home page through WMT as well and its still returning the same results

any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks

[edward-may]

Hi Christy,

Just wondering if you were able to give any feedback on this, it seems that the issue is still showing up

Would appreciate some advice around this

Cheers

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Justin

I honestly do not know - I am not a web developer and can't speak to your question here. I am just going based on this looks a little odd to me and different than the best practices format.

Sorry I can't be of more help to this particular question!

[edward-may]

Hi Patrick,

Thank for your response!  From what I understand - my developer has said that he has entered the correct format, however our site is created using a custom ruby app, and it automatically reformats it.  Same with the hreflang tags. Is there a correct format for specific language/frameworks? (java, .net, ruby etc?)

[edward-may]

Hi Christy,

Sorry here is the attachment - I have attached the meta tag description that shows up for the australia search and you can see in the meta tag in the pic it says "New Zealand" but when you check the meta des in the code it ends in "Australia" which is correct meta tag des

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[Christy-Correll]

Hi Justin, I'm not seeing your attachment... would you kindly upload it again? Thanks!

Christy

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Justin

I would read through this resource from Moz.

I also have to ask, is there a reason why your description is at the back of your tag? Example...

name='description'>

I would check your meta description tags and make sure that they are following the proper format.

Now, I am not saying this is the issue, but I would be interested to see you try it out and see what happens after Google crawls and reindexes your site; I would also use quotations rather than apostrophes, but that's just me being OCD about sticking to the suggested formats.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[Mustansar]

hey

just go through the following standard in order to get rid of this issue.

https://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2067564/how-to-use-html-meta-tags