Incorrect Page Title Tags and Meta Descriptions in Search Engine Results
In this article
- Manually requesting a recrawl
- Reasons for wrong information showing after recrawling
Whenever you make changes to the
title tags and meta descriptions of your site's pages, search engines need to crawl these changes before they can appear in search results. This process of recrawling your site can take some time.
If the incorrect information still appears in search results after some time, you can send a request to Google to recrawl the page.
Before you begin:
Make sure you're
viewing your site's source code the way search engines do.
Manually requesting a recrawl
If you want changes that you make to title tags and meta descriptions to appear quicker, some search engines allow you to request that they recrawl a page.
For example, for Google search results you can use
Google Search Console to manually request indexing for the page.
Important:
- Requesting a recrawl does not guarantee that your page's search result will update quicker.
- Make sure to publish your changes before you request a recrawl.
Reasons for wrong information showing after recrawling
If you still see the wrong title tags and meta descriptions in search engine results after requesting a recrawl, it may be for one of the reasons below.
The search engine decided that other information is more appropriate
Your title tags and meta descriptions don't meet the requirements
Custom code on your site is affecting your page
