: Why won't Google use my meta description? I have an issue with my website: Google isn’t using my meta description, instead it’s using the content of the web page and I’m really confused.

I have an issue with my website: Google isn’t using my meta description, instead it’s using the content of the web page and I’m really confused.

Reason I’m confused is because I have checked and I don’t have duplicate page titles, description nor keywords, neither do I have any robots.txt for my website.
My page title, description and keyword is unique, and page description is about 150 characters.

I have my site in Google Webmaster Tools and I checked for errors, but found none.

So I really don’t know why Google Search isn’t using my meta description.

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@Shanna517

(My answer from your cross-posted (and now closed) question.)

Google shows your meta-description if they think it’s useful for the searching user.

See Google’s documentation (bold emphasis mine):

Google will sometimes use the meta description of a page in search results snippets, if we think it gives users a more accurate description than would be possible purely from the on-page content.

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@Ogunnowo487

This is by design and is how Google works.

It does not necessarily use the meta description in the SERPs if it thinks other text on the page is more relevant to what the user has searched for.

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