Search engine issue
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Topic: Search engine issue
Posted By: chopper
Subject: Search engine issue
Date Posted: March 08 2018 at 12:11
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Anyone with search engine knowledge here who might know what's causing some search engines to show Japanese characters under the web site name in the search results as below. The information comes from a garden furniture web site which has no connection to my friend's web site. It just seems to be Bing and DuckDuckGo that do this.  |
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 08 2018 at 13:38
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I use StartPage. Doesn't happen there :) -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 09 2018 at 02:32
| Happens to me too. It looks like a Wordpress site, could it be that it's built on some garden furniture example template? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 09 2018 at 07:15
I hadn't thought of that. The issue only seems to occur with Bing and DuckDuckGo as we've assumed that it was a search engine issue.
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Vompatti wrote:Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 09 2018 at 07:26
The bit in Japanese is probably the contents of the "description" meta tag. I haven't used Wordpress myself but according to https://codex.wordpress.org/Meta_Tags_in_WordPress" rel="nofollow - this it should be in the header.php file.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 09 2018 at 08:02
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Many thanks Vompatti, I don't know if it is Wordpress but I have asked my friend to get it checked. You could be right about the template. I assume this means other search engines don't use this tag?
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 09 2018 at 08:16
| I think a lot of engines just grab the first few lines of text from the page and show that. |