Why did Google revert to an old meta description of my site?

**tronicscribe** · 09-29-2009, 07:31 PM

I'm trying to optimize my new site, and recently changed the meta description. I noticed the last time Google crawled my site, it updated the description as I expected. Strangely though, yesterday when I checked google for my site I saw that the description was from the old one I had. It shouldn't even be visible in my source anymore.

my domain is http://bravewhale.com and when I search google for the term "bravewhale" it shows my site of course, and in the description it says "(Silicon Valley)" however if you view the source code of my site you will see the meta description says "Bay Area"

Anyone know why this happened? Thanks.

**tronicscribe** · 10-02-2009, 07:15 PM

Any thoughts on this? The last cache date was sep. 29th, but when I check it now it says the 23rd. How can it go back? Thanks.

**infinitejail** · 10-03-2009, 07:11 PM

This will solve by itself over time. In any case you cannot control what snapshot of your site Google decides to show in the SERPs.

**tronicscribe** · 10-03-2009, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by infinitejail

This will solve by itself over time. In any case you cannot control what snapshot of your site Google decides to show in the SERPs.

I'm not sure how it will be solved if it keeps happening. In fact, if you check the cache date on it today, it says it was last cached on Oct. 3rd. which is today. However you will see that my description is old and still says (silicon valley) even though my meta description in the source code on the site today does not have those words at all. it should say bay area.

This just confuses me, lol. Any clue how or why google is displaying old serp data that isn't even in my source code on the date it was cached?

**js112** · 10-04-2009, 02:27 AM

maybe GOOGLE is adjusting its index, hmmmmmmm, google is always changing its index, maybe you should just wait, it will be ok

good luck

**yee** · 10-06-2009, 07:23 AM

Usually I would say that it is because of an old DMOZ description. But it seems you are not listed there. So then I would just go for the usual google flucatations. Have you tried www2.sandbox.google.com ?

**Jenie0109** · 10-08-2009, 04:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tronicscribe

I'm trying to optimize my new site, and recently changed the meta description. I noticed the last time Google crawled my site, it updated the description as I expected. Strangely though, yesterday when I checked google for my site I saw that the description was from the old one I had. It shouldn't even be visible in my source anymore.

my domain is http://bravewhale.com and when I search google for the term "bravewhale" it shows my site of course, and in the description it says "(Silicon Valley)" however if you view the source code of my site you will see the meta description says "Bay Area"

Anyone know why this happened? Thanks.

Maybe you access the other google datacenter that is not yet updated.