Can I make sure Google always uses my meta description tags for snippets?

Youser from Siegen, NRW asks: "I use "description tags". Still Google search results often start with a date or alter the description snippet. Is there any way of controlling this?"

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• seo
• snippets

[TheAceManHimself]

lol the porn sites are getting desperate and trying to lure the cartoon crowd.

[JoshZiering]

Matt waited that whole video to say, "Hope that's been useful Youser" I suspect he practiced in the mirror a bit too.

[leeanucha]

That is hurting many good sites with good desc. Now, i see many sites with good to perfect meta description tag but STILL! GOOGLE DOESN'T USE THAT!! I think GOOGLE (or any) algorithm is still far off from knowing between bad and good tags so why do this when you're not ready? Consequently, we now see all the messy description snippet for most of the results especially for foreign sites by this change. Thanks to Google.

[dmsameeram47]

can I include a snippet of code in my web page and suggest that as my search result description. and can I give other templates as well to make is more interesting like table view

[beeksjeanie]

nice google tips

[litlebigemo]

lol cartoons is porn see hentai :P

[CoolKoon]

@infiltrator7777 And why do you think that it's your company who's bound to be served by Google? It's the visitors of the site who are Google's customers. And if Google would turn up irrelevant/useless results, they'd risk losing them. So I'm sorry to say this, but if you want to describe your site with no regard of its relevance to the keyword, then it should NOT be used by Google. And besides, why do you rely on them, if you hate them so much? :P

[infiltrator7777]

@CoolKoon So another words, Google gets the right to make or break your company? You know Google isn't the only "internet company" to create things online. I can't wait for the day they break.

[CoolKoon]

@infiltrator7777 And why not? That's the same as companies having the right to choose their own suppliers based on THEIR own decisions. Feel free to use a different search engine if you don't like it: Bing, Ask and all the others are waiting just for you. I've never ever seen a Google search ad, yet I've been using it for years, 'cause it WORKS. And it works for non-English searches as well (which the others don't).

[CoolKoon]

I think that since it's German, it's probably pronounced like this: "Yo-zahr"

[CoolKoon]

@TheAceManHimself Nah, that was actually fairly popular at the dawn of the Internet. Porn (and other) site owners thought that if they stuff their meta description and keyword tags with MANY dozens of keywords (even completely unrelated ones), they'll generally rank better. And yes, they did, but it had nothing to do with relevance. That's why search engines later corrected this flaw. Unfortunately you can still bump into nutjobs who use the same principles....