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Old 11-09-2012, 08:14 AM
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Default Re: Rich Google Search Results module released

Hi, Steve!

When did you install Rich Google Search Results module?
As far as I see, Google indexed your site on 28 Oct last time and the most likely by that time, there was no microdata tags in your pages, so you should wait when Google indexes your site again and after that Rich snippet will appear in SERP.

As for description here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.babyhopes.com%2F babyhopes-ovula...ips.html&html=

This tool is for testing of Rich snippet ONLY, i.e. it does not take into account any meta description. Your meta descriptions in real SERP will be OK, because our module does not alter meta descriptions at all.

Considering above, I do suggest to return <div itemprop="description"> tags back to the code of your pages. Otherwise, if Google indexes your site and does not find this tag, it will not gather all needed information for Rich snippet and you will have to wait for next indexing again.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

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Originally Posted by BritSteve
This is odd. We still do not have the new rich snippets appearing in the google results, but if you run a test from http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.babyhopes.com%2F babyhopes-ovula...ips.html&html= the description is not the CDSEO description. It looks like the itemprop overrides the CDSEO meta description with a blank description.

It looks like the itemprop description takes precedence over the meta description, and if this is blank, then Google takes the description from the page contents.

If you look at the page source, the meta description at the top of the page is the correct CDSEO description, but later on the page is this.

<div itemprop="description" ><br />

Which is incorrect.

Where is the itemprop looking for the product description and why is it not finding anything?

Thanks,

Steve

EDIT. I have removed the itemprop description from the templates for now. Not sure what effect this is going make for Google. I am hoping that they will take the meta description from the page, but the google test page doesn't show the description they will use, but at least the empty itemprop description has gone.
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