I’ve recently wrote a couple of posts about writing post descriptions, A Blog Description Google Seems to Like and Your Description Sucks. If you read those, you should know by now that a custom description doesn’t always get used by Google. Sometimes Google just doesn’t care for your description, and uses the content it feels is best for the snippet they display.

Well, here is an easy way to make sure Google is using your description, use Google Alerts.

Google Alerts

If you have an account with Google it’s as simple as logging in and clicking on Alerts. Then just set one up where it searches blogs for your domain or blog title. I have one set up simply searching for Best Web Image. Once a week I get an email from Google with all my posts, and guess what is included with those posts? The descriptions that Google uses in its search results. Don’t see a description you like? Then login to your blog, and make the fix.

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