Title: Wrong description detecting
Last modified: September 1, 2022

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# Wrong description detecting

 *  Resolved [jaspear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaspear/)
 * (@jaspear)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-description-detecting/)
 * Hi,
 * For a few years now I am still having trouble getting Google to show text from
   what I have typed in the SEO settings in wordpress admin in the meta description
   box.
 * No matter what I do, it keeps showing text I have in a footer section of my page.
 * Please help!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwrong-description-detecting%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-description-detecting/#post-15972077)
 * Hi Jaspear,
 * There’s nothing technically wrong with the page, but Google ignored your custom
   description.
 * From [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/snippet#meta-descriptions](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/snippet#meta-descriptions).:
 * > Google will **sometimes** use the `<meta name="description">` tag from a page
   > to generate a snippet in search results, **if** we think it gives users a more
   > accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content.
 * Their keywords above were “sometimes” and “if.”
 * Google probably does not like your phone number in there; phones might generate`
   tel:` links automatically when they spot numbers in the text, which deprives 
   accessibility and Google’s intent of the description snippet: inform about the
   page, not call-to-action (literally in this case).
 * You can proactively block the footer text by adding a `data-nosnippet` attribute
   to the footer wrapper element. To learn more about that, see [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/robots_meta_tag#data-nosnippet-attr](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/robots_meta_tag#data-nosnippet-attr).
   It would be best to ask the theme author to help implement it on your site.

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 * Last reply from: [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-description-detecting/#post-15972077)
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