Google indexing issue with Wordpress & Yoast

[Tackle_Berry]

Hi, I offered to help out my dad by doing a website for his business using wordpress.

Issue I have is Google seems to be listing it the website description and sitemap wrong. I'm using the Yoast wordpress plugin and have filled out the information as it explains but the issue is still there even two weeks later.

The meta description on the page settings is not what Google displays and also Google is listing pages that it shouldn't. I want the pages listed on Google to match what Yoast shows on the sitemap.

Here is a screenshot of my Yoast meta description, Yoast sitemap and Google search results (I have blurred out the business name as I'm not trying to advertise)

Anyone got any idea on how to solve this?

 

[BaJ]

Looking at your screenshots and everything appears to be set up correctly. However, you can't 100% control what Google chooses to show in terms of titles and snippets.

Google is just choosing to show a more relevant or better (in their opinion) snippet to a user.

http://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description

As for the sitemap, that's just a hint to search engines for what pages exist on your site, it's an aid for attempting to get pages crawled. It's not a definitive list of pages that will be indexed though, search engines will do their own crawling and rank your content as they see appropriate.

Oh, and you missed one of the url's in the first screenshot

 

[xbenjiiman]

I can't remember how often Google re-indexes websites, but have you tried forcing a re-index?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en

 

[shady]

I think what's happening here is that because you have your contact details in the header, google has prioritised them in the meta description.

Try swapping 'Don't remove, improve' with your contact details if that works for you and see if you get the desired result.

Having said that, if people are searching for you and get your phone number in the SERPS, they might just phone you without clicking through to your website, so you have to ask yourself, what's more valuable, a full meta description or readily available contact details.