Search Results WITHOUT description

links only?

[zyshen]

hi all web masters,

I upgrade my site about 2 months ago. Google picked up the new pages pretty fast. However, there is a problem now:

after about 1 month from the upgrade, Google dropped all the descriptions for the new pages. But all the old pages (which do not exist on the server any more) still have their description. So now when I do a site:www.mydomain.com in google, majority of the URLs turned out without a description on them. (it has been like this for 2 or 3 weeks now)

Is this because of a problem on my end or google? BTW, my PR for homepage also dropped from 5 to 4 at the meanwhile. and all the new pages don't have a PR =.=

[hannamyluv]

We saw this on our site when the JS or other coding was too heavy above the description. After we lightened it up a bit, the descriptions appeared.

I don't know if this is your case, but it was in mine. I think the spider couldn't get through the tangle to the content.

[zyshen]

On most of those pages, there ain't any JS or dynamic coding. One thing that concerns me is that there is no meta description or keyword on those pages.
Is this the cause?

[PunkJazz]

I have always wondered why anyone concerned with seo would put any more js than the single line of code necessary to call the js from a remote file, is there a situation in which js cannot be called remotely?

Quite a while ago (~6 months) I came a cross a page ranking quite high (1st page) for a keyword that existing only in the meta content and description of the page. Nowhere else. Not on the page and not in anchor text of any inbound links. Only in the metatags. Since I was (at the time) a victim of the ever-so-popular (and patently false) "common knowledge" that google ignores metatags I spent quite some time making sure there were no instances of the keyword anywhere else. It's not uncommon to see a page ranking well where the keyword exists only in the anchor text of inbound links and not on the page itself, however this was different.

I haven't been around long enough to know if this particular example of misguided seo folklore is just an early example of google successfully duping the seo community with erroneous info that but it sure smells a lot like some of their more recent gems and either way I have no doubt that it has been the source of many a hearty chuckle over in googleland.