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Hi there!
I'm getting mad with some issue.

I designed a website for a customer. I'm trying to personalize the "description" on SERP so I used the various meta tag to force the description. Actually the meta tag for description and title are the following:

<title>Welcome to Sananda Maitreya's official website!</title>
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta name="description" content="Please enjoy Post Millennium Rock and check the latest live concerts video." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Sananda Maitreya"/>

Everything is possible to check on www.sanandamaitreya.com

Now, the result in Google when I use the keyword "Sananda Maitreya" is this:

Welcome to Sananda Maitreya's official website!
www.sanandamaitreya.com/‎
Official site of Terence Trent D'arby aka Sananda Maitreya.
fb25da17af361921439c4985ead63900
The last row (Official site of Terence Trent D'arby aka Sananda Maitreya) is taken from somewhere else then the website because there is no trace in the whole website about this sentence.
I really need to correct this and I don't know how to do.

Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot,

Shella

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Short answer: Google is free to replace your meta description with text it thinks is more useful to the query. That replacement often comes from visible page copy, anchor text on other sites, directory/Wikipedia-like descriptions, or Google’s own Knowledge Graph synthesis — so the phrase you see in the SERP can legitimately originate off-site rather than from a hidden meta tag.

Quick troubleshooting (in order):

  • Search the domain for the phrase: site:sanandamaitreya.com "Terence Trent" and a plain web search for the exact sentence in quotes to find external pages that mention it.
  • Check Google’s cached copy (the small dropdown beside the result or cache:yourdomain) to see what Google last indexed.
  • In Google Search Console use URL Inspection and the Links report to view top linking text (anchor text) pointing to your homepage.
  • Inspect the homepage source and visible H1/lead paragraph for any variant of that phrase (including image alt text or comments).

Practical fixes that usually work:

  • Make the homepage meta description unique, concise and mirrored by the visible first paragraph and H1 (Google prefers snippets it can match to on-page content).
  • Ensure canonicalization (www vs non-www, trailing slash) is correct and that the folder you mentioned isn’t serving a different title/description or redirect.
  • Add clear entity markup (schema.org JSON-LD for the artist/organization with sameAs links) so Google can better associate the site with the official identity.
  • Use Search Console’s URL Inspection -> Request Indexing after changes and monitor the cached snippet; updates can take days or weeks.

Notes on the thread: was right that a missing/blank description can trigger replacements, is right to change the meta, and ’s folder suggestion is worth checking because canonical/redirect issues often cause unexpected snippets.

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Member Avatar for Member #949455

The last row (Official site of Terence Trent D'arby aka Sananda Maitreya) is taken from somewhere else then the website because there is no trace in the whole website about this sentence.

I think either left the description tag blank in of your pages. That's the only thing I can think of.

Member Avatar for Manish02

Try to change the meta discription tag of your website. then check out the SERP.

Member Avatar for AbhijeetAtechnocrat

Hello,

I think your website is in Folder page, i mean to say "/thp/". It may be posible because of this folder page.

Thanks,

Atechnocrat Web Solution

Member Avatar for shella

I will try ti change the description tag and i will keep yu informed. Thanks for advices for now.

Shella

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