: Google Search results show one link but no description Search for this term in Google: cop-groningen or click the link to get to the page without typing. It shows you a link at the top of

@Cofer257

For everyone that has the same question, please check if you have uploaded a wrong version of robots.txt.
Mine was

User-agent: *
Disallow: *


Better change it to (in case of a Joomla site)

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/


I'll be under a rock for the coming few days, thanks.

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@Murray432

This one is a real oddity, I have no solid idea why Google isn't indexing your site correctly, code's valid (there appear to be some line breaks inside the meta description but that shouldn't do any harm) - your robots.txt looks like this:-

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/


Does the html or templates for any of the indexed pages reside in a directory other than the root, could one of these be preventing a full index and Google is just listing the base url?

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@Mendez628

Did you recently add/update your robots.txt? Often when it's just a link with no other info it's because the page has been blocked in robots.txt but discovered by Google through other links therefore the URL is indexed but none of the content on the URL is indexed.

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