Wierd Thing: Google is not reading my Description Meta Tag Properly

Google SEO question

[helphelp]

Hi,

For some reason google is not reading the description meta tag on my website. Instead it seems to be reading the html instead.

Also when I checked googles cached version of my wesite all I see is html text.

I ftp'd the index file again thinking that might help and I also went through my html several times and could not find any problems.

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Al

[tedster]

This definitely sounds like a coding problem to me - errors that may be confusing to googlebot. Use the W3C validator and fix whatever you see as errors. If you have trouble, our HTML forum [webmasterworld.com] is a good place for help on this.

W3C Validator - HTML [validator.w3.org]

[g1smd]

Use a HTTP Header checker to make sure that the files are served with a MIME type that says "text/html".

If they have the wrong MIME type then anything other than IE will not interpret or display the page correctly.

IE overlooks this supposed-to-be fatal error. Check again using Mozilla, or Firefox.

[jomaxx]

google is not reading the description meta tag on my website

What do you mean by this? Everything is OK except for this one line? What's the exact symptom you see in your listings?

[g1smd]

It's an unclosed tag or the MIME type.