on this site below there is no description in google from the main description from within joomla ,,,why?

site: fenceworksok .com

If you view the source of the page, the meta description is there. It doesn't look like this is a joomla problem.

Do you have a robots.txt file and is it written correctly?

Ed

this is in my robots.txt

# If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at
# e.g. www.example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be
# moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com/robots.txt
# AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed
# path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder
# MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# www.robotstxt.org/orig.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/

That looks correct. In case you're interested there is a very complete discussion of robots.txt here tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/

Google meta descriptions are completely automated by Google. They will use the meta description unless they think they can do a better job. So you need your meta description tag, and you also need some text on the page.

The description may not be present until the page is crawled. It may take a while if you've made page changes recently or just posted. Here's a checklist of things you can do to try to make sure you've done everything.

Check this all first:
1. Did you put all meta title, description on important pages?
2. Is your meta tag syntax correct?
3. Did you already edit,save sitemaps with new pages that you want to get crawled?
4. Did you resubmit sitemaps to Google webmaster tools? Remember refresh it/resubmit it and remove the old one.

Here's a page from google that tells you how they get the description and what you might need to do to make sure it's getting the notice it deserves.

support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624

This isn't something that is caused by Joomla as far as I can tell. Once a page shows up on the internet, it's up to Google to get the description.

I hope that answers your question.
Cheers,
Ed

Hi OSTopDog

If the website has had down time, or recently undergone a shakeup, this may cause the issue that you are experiencing. I had the exact same thing happen to one of my sites, and all you can do is check your syntax, and be patient. The website I refer to was offline only for a few days in its baby days- it was about 3 months old.

Everything went mad from there.

If all is correct, within 2 weeks everything will be right again, as Google sorts its cache out and learns to love your description again. Has the description ever shown for this website?

Cheers

daBro

Thanks daBro, for sharing that. Clients were always asking me about this in the past, and I always got the impression they didn't believe me. It's nice to have verification form an independent source. This is really quite common.

Cheers,
Ed