Meta descriptions not being used in google search

Question

my site is www.eatfituk.com

I am using wordpress seo (yoast) to input my meta titles and descriptions, google search takes the title but wont take the description. I have had the site for about a year a I have asked google to crawl my site many times but with no change.

I dont know if there is something in my site causing it not to work.

Thanks, Joe

Answer 1

Just had a look at your site, looks good!

Your Robot Meta tag is:

<meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir"/>

I'm pretty sure this is the cause to your problem, when you use noodp which allows you to opt out of the description. More info on matt cutts blog

Try putting them to "index, follow" instead, I'm pretty sure this will fix your problem!