: Google displaying Facebook "SECURITY WARNING" in result description As of about 10 days ago, Google replaced the meta description in our organic SERP for "scorebig" with the following text:
As of about 10 days ago, Google replaced the meta description in our organic SERP for "scorebig" with the following text:
SECURITY WARNING: Please treat the URL above as you would your password and do not share it with anyone. See the Facebook Help Center for more ...
This particular text comes from an Facebook iframe inserted into the fb-root element which is used by the Facebook JavaScript SDK. The text is never actually displayed to users (or to Google), but Google sees it in the final markup and chooses to use it as the description instead of the actual meta description content. Upon reviewing the Google Webmaster Tools "HTML Improvements" section I noted a number of "Duplicate meta descriptions" warnings, 17 of which referred to URL permutations of the homepage. I went ahead and added the missing canonical URL tag to the homepage, and even changed the description of the page entirely, but the duplicate list is still showing what is now stale data.
Since this started happening, I have seen the SERP revert back to the correct description 2 or 3 times, before switching again to the "SECURITY WARNING" text. At least once, the issue was corrected when I used the "Fetch as Google" and "Submit to Index" features of the Webmaster Tools, but this no longer seems to be having any impact. Interestingly, I noticed that the markup retrieved with "Fetch as Google" does not contain the "SECURITY WARNING" text, which would imply that the system used to crawl organically is not the same as the system used to crawl in the Webmaster Tools.
Google is the only search engine behaving this way from what I can tell. Bing seems to be just fine with displaying the correct description. Short of removing Facebook from our website entirely and letting Google pick the next random piece of text that it sees, I am out of ideas.
Is there anything I can do?
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I see some problems.
Starting now, get rid of the keywords meta tag. Bing will use it against you if it contains the same word numerous times, and google will at best ignore it.
Next, work on your meta description tag, and make it so it doesn't keep repeating the same word. Also, try to make the characters limited to letters and numbers, commas, and dashes if possible.
This is your description:
Save up to 60% on Tickets - Sports, Concerts & Theater, Broadway and Special Event Tickets in your area. No Fees & Free Shipping. Save on Every Ticket. Every Day.
Try and change it to:
We sell Tickets for Sports, Concerts, Broadway, and special Events with free shipping in your area every day.
Most importantly, make sure you use many words from the description in your site.
Also, avoid duplicate keywords in title tags.
And run your website through a keyword density checking program and make sure no word takes up more than 5% of all the words on the page.
Also check the script that generates the page and make sure it doesn't display a different page based on IP address. Also, check the .htaccess file if you use apache and see if there's anything that's causing certain computers to redirect to a different page. Look for lines containing text like REMOTE_ADDR or REMOTE_HOST or anything to do with a remote computer. There's a chance part of your site is hacked.
I know I'm answering way late here but that's why you may get the issue you had back in 2014.
Your current meta description is too long to fit into Google's search results pages.
If this happens, instead of truncating the current description, Google often pull content from elsewhere on the page to create a description. This often results in unhelpful, incomplete or widely inaccurate description such as yours.
The first thing you should do is create a meta description that actually fits in the search results. You can use a tool such as Snippet Optimizer to help create one that is the correct length.
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