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Re: Creating a 'Description' of the web page

null@example.com (Alfred) — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:32:17 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I’m not in a position to try it for myself right now, but I’m happy to take your word for it!

Re: Creating a 'Description' of the web page

null@example.com (Wolstan Dixie) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:00:39 +0000

Thanks - that is not quite what I am saying. If you fill in the Webplus Page Properties ‘Description’ box and then publish the page, I don’t think the text you filled appears anywhere in the html. Consequently it is not available to Google Search. Try it and see.

Re: Creating a 'Description' of the web page

null@example.com (Alfred) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:16:16 +0000

If you make any changes under ‘Page Properties’ in WebPlus, those changes should stick when you save your project file and they should appear in the HTML when you publish the site. If you’re saying that a Google search doesn’t show the updated information, that’s to be expected until such time as Google has recrawled the site.

https://developers.google.com/search/do … to-recrawl

Creating a 'Description' of the web page

null@example.com (Wolstan Dixie) — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:10:11 +0000

I am dissatisfied with the heading Google Search has given one of my pages. It seems this is generated automatically from the page contents by a complex algorithm. It consists of a 'Title' and a 'Snippet', you can turn off snippet creation with .

The 'Title' box in Webplus Page Properties sure enough inserts html Your title into the header.

I was hoping that the 'Description' box in Webplus Page Properties would insert the html into the header. Instead it apparently does nothing?

Am I missing something (no pun intended)?