Meta Tags not being recognized??
So I'm fairly new with SEO,
Though somehow the literal basic element of it is giving me trouble..
So my meta description is defined in my code yet not displaying in my site search result on Google?? Rather displaying an alert which is displayed at the top of the page (the first bits of actual text on the page)
Wondering if im missing something so obvious that I can't notice it..
@boardy is right. Google doesn't always take the meta description to show on the SERP. There are several of articles explaining this
However, I do see a few issues. The element for meta description should have a name="description" and content="what you want your description to be". Double check your syntax, because you have it a bit wrong.
I also noticed that you have 2 head tags in your HTML. I would highly suggest running your code through an HTML validator to help you identify other issues.
I hope this helps!
The meta description is not necessarily what is displayed by Google on the search page. It will usually take a snippet of text from the main page content to fit to what the user searched for.
I don't think meta descriptions really get used that much other than it might help older search engines or bots, but it is good practice to have a meta description but you unfortunately can't make Google use it in their search results.