How come my websites` meta descriptions are different than what I put in the Yoast plugin? The description tag copy is being pulled from somewhere else....?
Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.
Valentina Huff: How come my websites' meta descriptions are different than what I put in the Yoast plugin? The description tag copy is being pulled from somewhere else....
Azedine Djedid: Well Google is the big boss, sometimes the search engine show randomly the meta description.
Patrick Rabanser: If google thinks your Meta Description or/and Title are bad ;then google will actually take something from your content and show it, ;maybe your description is not very good or accurate...
Valentina Huff: hank you +Azedine Djedid ;and +Patrick Rabanser ;! Any recommendations for how long the description should be? I've read around 150sh but I've noticed on a mobile phone that's too long....
Patrick Rabanser: I think it will just cut it off on mobile devices, but try to count tha characters, im not sure but I think that if you make the description too short google will replace it. Can anyone confirm that? Or how do you handle descriptions on mobile and Desktop?
Daniel Lloyd Barrett: I use relatively short meta descriptions on purpose to force Google into taking snippets from the page content and I they do a far better job of pulling relevant results from my pages than if a try and write my own full description
Moeez Bin Hamid: I have a related question, I use all in one SEO on wp, I purchased a website which had many pages, so I used this seo plugin to create the meta description automatically for the pages. But i am having problem, all the meta descriptions starts with pictures link as picture is the first thing there on the page :S Any help will be highly appreciated, thank you!
Daniel Lloyd Barrett: +Moeez Bin Hamid check with yoast support, they would answer your query best
Mike Cooke: I have had something similar before, in your template I would assume that you have a custom admin so in the header template you should have this ;<title> <?php wp_title(); ?></title> however if you have a custom one the theme may override the default function of the yoast SEO. Just FTP in and check the header.php in the theme folder. this is the easy way to tell with the title however for the descriptions it may be a permission issue. yoast are quite good with support.
Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:05:10 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/yoast_meta_descriptions +Valentina Huff
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How come my websites` meta descriptions are different than what I put in the Yoast plugin? The description tag copy is being pulled from somewhere else....? 
