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Ian Dillon
29 Oct 2010, 05:58 PM
I am extremely happy that the home page of my video production (http://www.playroomcreative.com) website, www.playroomcreative.com, has moved it's way up to fifth from the top in Google's natural listings when I search for "video production". However, the description it shows is not the one I created in the meta description tag. Instead, it shows snippets from text within the body of the page. Even more strangely, if I Google the name of my site itself, "Playroom Creative", the description will then show up fine. Here is an example.

If I search for "Video Production" then this is the description Google shows:
Production Home Page Ad Samples (HD & Film) Ad Samples (Video) Infomercial Samples Web Video Samples Print Samples Media Samples (Other) ...

If I search for "Playroom Creative" then the correct description appears:
We are a full service Orange County production and marketing company for TV, web, and print media. (714) 969-3938.

I am also concerned that making any changes now could result in my loss of Google positioning. Does anyone know what's going on and how I can get the correct description to appear without loosing Google positioning?

Thanks in advance!
Ian

Fireproofgfx
29 Oct 2010, 06:38 PM
This is how it should be for your meta section.


<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="description" content="Your description" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Every describing word" />
<meta name="ratings" content="general" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="all" />

I did notice that your Charset is different which might be the reason this is happening to you but I don't know, I just use utf because that is what I have been taught to use.
You have <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />