This is an old website I created in FW and the my client doesn’t have the budget to overhaul it or make it responsive. But I stumbled upon something strange/problematic today.
If you google “Flowersong Herbals” all is well. But if you google “flowersongherbals” (no space) google is not picking up the page descriptions or site description. What could be causing this? Is there a simple (ie not much time on my part/expense on client’s part) fix?
In my experience, if the term you searched for is in the metadata description, Google will often show that. However, if the term is not in the description, but elsewhere on the page, Google will tend to pull the section of text that contains that term.
In this case, Google’s algorithm has chosen to show the snippet for “flowersongherbals” — which is from the footer of the page, instead of the metadata description, because the footer contains that exact term.
I think it’s simply semantic weirdness, nothing else. This happens, when “graphic” messages are combined with text expectations. In other words:
The page title should reflect the H1 tag (vice versa) while the description follows the first paragraph after the H1 tag (vice versa). You flag the graphic headline with an ID of h1-flowersong and wrap the image in an h2 class. This all is not semantic cause google can’t interpret the image. Or in other words, google doesn’t really have a chance to uniquely determine what happens cause it misses some important components such as H1.
I’m no english expert at all, but to me there is a subtle difference between:
Sun shine (invitation or a future incident)
and
sunshine (current or past situation)
Is Flowersongherbal a special product or discipline? Or is Herbal a special discipline of the company “Flowersong”? I think the latter cause it matches more the google algorithm while the first happens to people that entirely uses “graphic” rather than readable HTML text.
On 19 Oct 2015, at 22:15, Doty email@hidden wrote:
If you google “Flowersong Herbals” all is well. But if you google “flowersongherbals” (no space) google is not picking up the page descriptions or site description. What could be causing this? Is there a simple (ie not much time on my part/expense on client’s part) fix?
