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[clipscapital]

When Google crawls any of my posts on my website it ends up looking like this in the search results - http:/ /img241.imageshack.us/img241/2940/fffffg1.jpg

What do I need to do so I get nice looking results? I just want it to show a description of my choice, not any of that admin, categories or date stuff that you see. Is it anything to do with the "excerpt" box in Wordpress?

I am confused as what I need to do, please help me out

Edited by Randy, 10 April 2008 - 10:35 PM.
Edited to break screenshot url.

[Randy]

Welcome clipscapital !

What do you expect the search engines to show in their snippet when there is no real text content on the page? None at all in several of the pages I looked at. Just a YouTube video with maybe one very short sentence that might relate to the page title.

You could try adding some text to a meta description tag, but you'll be better served if you simply add some text to the pages if you want a more descriptive snippet. Without any text content you leave them nothing to choose from by the stuff that is auto-generated by WP.

[Jill]

Google shows a completely different description depending on the search query. So it depends on what you typed into Google to see what you're showing in your screen shot.