Editing Google descriptions

If the Google description for your store’s pages aren’t accurate, you can suggest changes to the description that displays on google.

Here’s how-to for your store’s homepage, blog posts or product, collections, pages and posts/articles below:

Editing Google descriptions for products, collections, pages, and posts/articles:

Steps:

  1. Open up the product, collection, page or post.
  2. Scroll down on the ‘edit’ screen to find the Search engine listing preview.
  3. Select the Edit website SEO text.
  4. Edit the description, and select Save.

Editing Google descriptions for blogs (eg. the blog index, not the individual articles):

Steps:

  1. Click this link: https://shopify.com/admin/blogs
  2. Open up the blog you want to edit.
  3. Scroll down on the ‘edit’ screen to find the Search engine listing preview.
  4. Click the Edit website SEO text.
  5. Edit the description and select Save

Editing Google descriptions for homepage

The description for the homepage is a suggestion for what search engines should display in their results.

It’s best practice to stick to length requirements and you’ll want to make sure the wording accurately reflects the page content.

Steps:

  1. Go to your store preferences.
  2. Edit the description field.
  3. Select Save.

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