Hi,
It looks like there is a bug with the SEO (see screenshots)
What it looks like on google:
What it looks like in my page settings:
https://preview.webflow.com/preview/flowglobemedia?preview=68cfbfda25786cb12e08e263487bbcaa
Best,
Nathan
Hey Nathan!
Did you update your site SEO recently? I would suggest using Google WebDeveloper Tools: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home which will allow you to add recent sitemap.xml and force Google to recrawl your website. Please keep in mind Google doesn’t index sites that often, but the Google WebDev Tools are a great way of getting your site indexed properly.
Your sitemap.xml file is available at the url: https://www.flowglobemedia.com/sitemap.xml
Let us know if that helps and if not, make sure to shoot us an email at support@webflow.com!
Cheers,
Bart
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Hi Bart,
It was a couple of days ago that I made the update to my pages SEO setting. Good is showing it crawled a couple days ago as well, but I’m not sure if that was before or after I made the updates.
With that said, I went ahead and updated the xml using the Google WebDeveloper Tools…what would you say is a reasonable amount of time to let things work out before I give you guys a heads up on it one way or the other?
Best,
Nathan
It usually takes 7-14 days for a search engine to recrawl the website, but once you force Google to recrawl your website you can check results on Google WebDev Tools and by typing site:flowglobemedia.com into google search. That will show you all results with for domain.
For me they look like this now:
Hey @bart
Thanks for the reply. I’m still seeing the same. I’m going to make a few tweaks to my site and then resubmit the sitemap early next week. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks for your help and best,
Nathan
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Hey Bart,
I’ve made updates, but it appears that it’s still pulling the wrong content into the search fields, and not from the SEO fields:
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pulling date from the footer
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putting “- Designed by” in the page title
** I’ve tried it on a couple of different browser as well as my iPhone
Best,
Nathan
Hi @nathanphilsteele, I took a quick peek at the site, on the page that is linked to the Thinking menu item, and the SEO meta title info appears to be correctly published.
I did notice however that there are script errors on the page, and this might be affecting to google’s ability to properly crawl the page, it is something to look at:
Hi @cyberdave ,
Both of those errors are form the Sharethis social share widget. The one error with the https issue I believe I fixed. The other error I’m not so sure about.
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why would those interfere with the seo working correctly?
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what is that tool that you are using to find out the errors.
Honestly, I feel like there is a little more to it then what those errors could be.
Also, the other widget I have installed is Discus.
Additionally, I tried doing a search through the source to find “Designed by.” Maybe you have a tool that can do a better job finding that ?
Best,
Hi @Dave,
I added those widgets only a few days ago, so something else is going on. I you look at the screenshot from bart, you will see “Designed by” in the page view So, something else is going on.
It appears that this is something that truly needs to be looked into from the backend to see what is happening.
- Is no one else experiencing this issue?
Best,
Nathan
Hi @samliew, you seem like a very knowledgable fellow…any thoughts on the SEO bug I’m experiencing?
Best,
Nathan
It’s beginning to update—this could be a Google waiting issue and not a Webflow issue. For instance, the About page has now been updated by Google and no longer displays Designed by.
These things really can take a week or two to really propagate through Google’s system.
Edit: Clarified “could be”
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You got it, @nathanphilsteele! The wait can be excruciating at times. We’ve all been there. 
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