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title: Google uses the wrong meta title / meta description in search results
url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/google-uses-the-wrong-meta-title-meta-description-in-search-results/"
lang: en-US
updated: 2025-07-09
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# Google uses the wrong meta title / meta description in search results

You have entered your personalized title and meta description but Google is not displaying them correctly.

Why? What to do ?

**Short answer:** Google does what it wants!

**Long answer:**

- the first thing to check is your source code to make sure you don’t have duplicate meta title / description. Fortunately, the SEOPress content analysis feature takes care of this. If we find duplicate meta tags, you will be notified.
- the update of the meta title / description is too recent and the bot has not re-crawled your site, or Google has not updated its index yet (it can take several weeks or months depending on the popularity of the site and its age)
- the meta title / description is not considered relevant by Google
- the meta title is too long
- the meta description is contextual to the user search queries

You can find more explanations from the Google official website: [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624)