Google always determines what information it will glean from a page, and essentially you are suggesting the preferred meta data by using the appropriate tags in the Search Engine Listing section on the page level.
So, essentially, it depends on which information is considered pertinent to the page (from the spiders perspective) and since the Search Engine Listing section is the title and description area, the only default is the spider crawling the page and displaying what it wants.
If you leave it blank, it will display something from the page, it just may not be what you want.
You can edit in masse however using the Title Tag Rewriter or the Meta Description Editor to save time.
All the best,
Jeffrey
humm… I’m asking this because I’m using a multilanguage plugin. and when I write a post I have to write it in both languages, so that’s the reason I wanna leave it in blank so the search engine can display the post info on both languages like facebook open graph does in my website.
For example when I post this links on facebook:
http://www.pulseframe.cf/movie-trailers/divergent-trailer/04/2014?lang=pt
http://www.pulseframe.cf/movie-trailers/divergent-trailer/04/2014
Facebook takes the right title and description for both languages to timeline. and I always leave open graph post fields in blank.
However it doesn’t seem that my website is appearing on google searches.
Nor pages or posts.
Which is really bad… Can you help me on this?
Regards
Hi Pulseframe:
It’s just that despite meta tags, Google still does what it wants based upon how it indexes the site – http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-look-title-match-query-190039
Even if blank, something will appear, it may not be what you like, but, it’s at the algorithms discretion.
Jeffrey
Hi, i’m sorry but since i upgraded to wordpress 3.9 and latest version of SEO ULTIMATE my page’s serp results are badly updated to a strange titles.
Thanks for the clarification Jeffrey.
Regards
