What Google uses in search result descriptions
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Recently, Google has started including certain information from our web pages in their search results description that is a bit puzzling. For example if you google 'Wedding Band Raleigh' the description they are using for our site's (GigMasters) page begins with the text 'Results 1 - 10 of 1005' Not sure why they are pulling that information. That is in on the page but its not high up on the page or marked with any special h1, h2, or h3 tag. We do have that information inside of a div which we have named 'Results'. Maybe that's why? Did we inadvertently use some sort of Google rich snippet or schema.org naming convention?!
Any insight would be hugely appreciated.
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Keri - Interesting that you've seen others mentioning this. I'd be very interested to see whatever references you can dig up. Thank you!
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You did not use any form of Google keyword to trigger the inclusion of the "results" information.
Google will try to find whatever relevant data it can from a page and add it to the description as it deems appropriate. I agree in this case it would be preferable to not include this data. I do not know of a way to simply remove it, but if you added a date stamp to the top of your page, there is a good chance Google with use the date instead of the "results" information.
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I need to dig up threads, but you're not alone on this. I've seen mention of it here and I believe on Search Engine Roundtable. I'll come back with references in a bit.
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