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Snippet still showing on search!

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sulainis98

1:35 pm on May 21, 2020 (gmt 0)

I have a problem with my site where the snippet is still showing, although I have removed it from source code, cleaned cache in wordpress AND cloudflare, but it's still there and shows really weird.

Anyone knows what could be the problem?

[edited by: phranque at 3:08 am (utc) on May 22, 2020]
[edit reason] image link [/edit]

phranque

3:15 am on May 22, 2020 (gmt 0)

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], sulainis98!

in order for your edited snippet to show up in search results, the url must first be crawled by the relevant bot.
only then can the page be rendered and indexed.
even after all this, the search engine may decide for some searches to show a more relevant snippet than what you provided.

have you checked your web server access log files to see if that url has been requested by the relevant user agent/IP address since the content was edited?

tangor

6:36 am on May 22, 2020 (gmt 0)

Is this an edited snippet, or a REMOVAL?

If a removal, know that g will often insert a snippet of their creation if there is a lack of one provided. In your case, if a removal, they might run with the one you originally supplied.

Their serps, not yours. Not sure what you might do to FORCE a change.

sulainis98

2:55 pm on May 24, 2020 (gmt 0)

I wanted google to remove the snippet, because it just looks broken. It put like an review snippet, but instead of stars, it showed ->->->-> 5.0 out of 5 5.0;.

not2easy

3:20 pm on May 24, 2020 (gmt 0)

it just looks broken

That can happen when a page or site claims it is using UTF-8 (or any other charset) and it is something different. Make sure that your charset matches the html meta data on the page for it to be parsed properly.

phranque

9:34 pm on May 24, 2020 (gmt 0)

I wanted google to remove the snippet

use this in the <head> of the document:

<meta name="robots" content="nosnippet">

see this:
Special tags that Google understands [support.google.com]

sulainis98

8:46 am on May 29, 2020 (gmt 0)

use this in the <head> of the document:

That won't remove snippets across the whole site?

phranque

11:26 am on May 29, 2020 (gmt 0)

That won't remove snippets across the whole site?

There is no mechanism for site-wide snippet removal - only for per-URL snippet removal.

sulainis98

7:46 am on Jun 1, 2020 (gmt 0)

Im asking this because I use WP as my CMS, so every page uses the same head code. As I'm looking at my source code right now, my SEO plugin has this <meta name="robots" content="follow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large"/> in every page of <head>. Does it impact anything regarding to the problem I have?

phranque

8:29 am on Jun 1, 2020 (gmt 0)

max-snippet:-1

this means "allow any snippet length"

use this meta element definition in your SEO plugin to get rid of snippets on all pages that use this in the <head>:

<meta name="robots" content="follow, index, nosnippet, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large"/>

sulainis98

12:30 pm on Jun 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

use this meta element definition in your SEO plugin to get rid of snippets on all pages that use this in the <head>

The thing is that every page uses the same head, because it is a Wordpress site. But I guess I have to research myself how can I put that meta on independent page.

not2easy

12:54 pm on Jun 2, 2020 (gmt 0)

There are many plugins to add custom meta data to WP sites. You may even already have one installed. If not, just log in to your WP admin panel, go to your plugins area and click to 'Add New' so you can search.

sulainis98

7:25 am on Jun 3, 2020 (gmt 0)

It's fine, I found that my SEO plugin lets you to independently choose which to use snippets or no.

Going to wait for some results now.

sulainis98

7:46 am on Jun 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

I've encountered a new problem now. I did put nosnippet, the thing disappeared along with meta description. Only title was shown in google search. So i removed the nosnippet and the desc reappeared with the review thing i wanted to get rid of.

Any suggestions?