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Quote from: Spuds – July 14, 2022, 09:01:23 amThe best that could be done would be to use the same value used in the og:description text

QuoteRich results: Add structured data to your site to help Google understand the page: for example, a review, recipe, business, or event. Learn more about how rich results can improve your site's listing in search results.
Meta description tags: Google sometimes uses <meta> tag content to generate snippets, if we think they give users a more accurate description than can be taken directly from the page content.

Quote from: Spuds – July 15, 2022, 02:31:29 pmAgain, I'm not sure what you are trying to ask or indicate.

QuoteRich results: Add structured data to your site to help Google understand the page: for example, a review, recipe, business, or event. Learn more about how rich results can improve your site's listing in search results.
Meta description tags: Google sometimes uses <meta> tag content to generate snippets, if we think they give users a more accurate description than can be taken directly from the page content.

Meaning the <meta name="description" content="xyz" /> may be used, but only as a last resort.  Instead it will preferentially use any structured data, aka schema.org data, that it finds on the page.  For this page the output contiains.

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	<script type="application/ld+json">
	{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "url": "https://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=6144.0",
    "logo": {
        "@type": "ImageObject",
        "url": "https://www.elkarte.net//community/themes/default/images/logo.png",
        "width": 134,
        "height": 60
    },
    "name": "ElkArte Community",
    "slogan": ""
}
	</script>
	<script type="application/ld+json">
	{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "DiscussionForumPosting",
    "@id": "https://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=6144.msg43874#msg43874",
    "headline": "Problem Description forum and  topic",
    "author": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Abu haron",
        "url": "https://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?action=profile;u=1396;name=Abu+haron"
    },
    "url": "https://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=6144.msg43874#msg43874",
    "articleBody": "Welcome<br/>The program has been installed and the development of sections and forums.<br/>But there is a problem, which is the description feature, why is it not there? How is it added?<br/>",
    "articleSection": "Support",
    "datePublished": "July 14, 2022, 06:01:14 am",
    "dateModified": "July 14, 2022, 06:01:14 am",
    "interactionStatistic": {
        "@type": "InteractionCounter",
        "interactionType": "https://schema.org/ReplyAction",
        "userInteractionCount": 2
    },
    "wordCount": 31,
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "ElkArte Community",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://www.elkarte.net//community/themes/default/images/logo.png",
            "width": 134,
            "height": 60
        }
    },
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@type": "WebPage",
        "@id": "https://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=6144.0"
    }
}
	</script>

and Google finds and parses those (2) entries.  You can test that here: https://search.google.com/test/rich-results  It will give one warning as there is no image tag in the data (since there is no leading attachment).  I described all of this in another post.

Quote from: Abu_haron – July 15, 2022, 03:06:42 pmAs for topics, programs that are supposed to automatically put the first line or two of the topic in the situation

Quote from: Abu_haron – July 15, 2022, 03:06:42 pmThe descriptions are at the bottom of each section and specified in the yellow color, which is supposed to appear in the description code and not the name of the section as it is in the previous image