How Does Google Pick Descriptive Text? - Site Owners Forums

wryfhk22 · 09-22-2011, 02:37 AM

How does Google select the descriptive text for listings (between the Title and URL)? I'm not referring to the Description or Category...I'm asking about a site's interior pages that don't have Description or Category.

danielpaul456 · 01-18-2013, 12:03 AM

Google picks up the descriptive texts from:
1.Directory description
2.From the Meta tags
3.Text near the first Keyword in the body

rogerdaney · 01-28-2013, 02:32 AM

Google is selecting a descriptive text for listings. It is not the description of the category that is being related here, but the interior pages of the site that have a description and a category.

tricklewis004 · 02-05-2013, 01:56 AM

I want to have an idea as to how the big G would do the picking of descriptive text when searches are made by people on the online world these days.

Georgefelix · 02-07-2013, 02:31 AM

Google displays either the meta description of the particular page or the anchor text present in the particular page, for instance About US:Contact Us. However a page without description will usually be ranked far in the search results.

jennifer1234 · 02-07-2013, 05:29 AM

Thanks for sharing, This is very informative information.

samlko · 02-07-2013, 06:06 AM

It picks from meta tags.

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02-07-2013, 02:31 AM	#5
Georgefelix Registered User Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 4	Google displays either the meta description of the particular page or the anchor text present in the particular page, for instance About US:Contact Us. However a page without description will usually be ranked far in the search results. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. \| To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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02-07-2013, 06:06 AM	#7
samlko Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 67	It picks from meta tags. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. \| To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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