Yoast SEO meta description is being ignored

jbn1981

When I type site:mysite.es at google bar, it shows correct title for all my pages but the description is just an excerpt of the page content, not my configured text at Yoast SEO.

EDIT: Now neither the title at my sites changes when I change it on Yoast SEO.

If I click on View page source on my page, I can see two <meta> elements with name and content attributes (could that be the problem?):

<meta name="description" content="Otro sitio realizado con WordPress">  --> Wrong! Where is it coming from???

<meta name="description" content="My content...">  --> Correct

Besides, when typing site:mysite.es, I see all the results with the BeTheme predefined icon at the beggining, and not mine, but If I see the source code, it seems correct:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="my-48x48-px-icon" type="image/x-icon">

Thanks.

Pablo

Hello,

Can you send me a link to your website?

I have to check the source code.

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jbn1981

Sure.

https://almacenamientoexterno.es

Pablo

I'll respond you with solution on monday - I have to contact the developer team, but right now they are not available (weekend).

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Pablo

Okay, my bad - sorry about that.

If you are using the external SEO plugin you should turn off the "Built In Fields" in the Theme Options > SEO

http://prntscr.com/qbh63w

After that, everything will be okay.

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jbn1981

Thanks for the quick response.

Ok, now I can see my Yoast SEO titles and descriptions when I type site:almacenamientoexterno.es at google navigation bar. But still, 2 errors:

1. BeTheme icon is showing instead of mine

2. The first question mark on the descriptions is missing (For example, instead of ¿Quieres adquirir...?, I see: Quieres adquirir...? That's wrong in spanish, my language.

https://prnt.sc/qblq7c

Can you help me?

Thanks a lot.

Pablo

1) Please upload an favicon in the Theme Options > Global > General

http://prntscr.com/qbx5sf

But, convert it on that page first:

https://realfavicongenerator.net/

2) I'm not sure if google accepts this string, also did you add it recently?

Like with favicon, description need to be crawled by the google robots and it takes few days til they will done it.

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jbn1981

Hi, 

The icon is still missing. I update my question with more details:

Mi site at google search results (you can see it typing site:almacenamientoexterno.es at google):

https://prnt.sc/qel2wt

I followed Google rules here with no result:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9290858?hl=en

Pre-visualization on plugin Yoast SEO at my site is correct:

https://prnt.sc/qel3sw

Even in Chrome tabs I can see it properly:

https://prnt.sc/qel25t

I removed the default Betheme favicon.ico from the root of my site and put mine: almacenamientoexterno.es/favicon.ico

Still, no luck.

Any idea?

Pablo

So, it looks like google didn't crawl it yet.

If you created the favicon with that tool I sent you and inserted it in proper place, then it will change.

On all other places it's displayed fine, so it means that google robots didn't reach it yet.

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