So, you are seeing strange results on you webpage … your meta description is showing on the page and it shouldn’t … what gives?\u00a0 Maybe you recently added schema.org tags to your site and now those are showing on the page and shouldn’t … what is going on?<\/p>\n
A common issue that can cause text to show up on your website that you don’t want is the use of quotes.\u00a0 Let us look at the meta description tag.\u00a0 It commonly looks like this:<\/p>\n
<meta name=”description” content=”Here is my description for Google SEO.\u00a0 I sure hope Google finds me!”><\/p>\n
Now let’s say you have a quote in the content of your tag, like this:<\/p>\n
<meta name=”description” content=”Blue Ball.\u00a0 10″ diameter. $4.50.”><\/p>\n
This will cause a problem with the meta tag because the quote after diameter actually closes the quote after the content=.\u00a0 Herein lies the problem.\u00a0 So we really want a quote as it means inches in this case.\u00a0 What can we do?<\/p>\n
Use the HTML code for quote:\u00a0 " .\u00a0 Yes, this looks strange, but it will solve your problem.\u00a0 Your meta tag should now look like this:<\/p>\n
<meta name=”description” content=”Blue Ball.\u00a0 10" \u00a0diameter. $4.50.”><\/p>\n
Have tons of products in a spreadsheet … do a find and replace on the column that needs it.<\/p>\n
Use this method in ALL your meta tags to stop any unforeseen problems.\u00a0 :O)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, you are seeing strange results on you webpage … your meta description is showing on the page and it shouldn’t … what gives?\u00a0 Maybe you recently added schema.org tags to your site and now those are showing on the page and shouldn’t … what is going on? A common issue that can cause text … <\/p>\n