Google displaying message instead of description for robots.txt excluded files

We have just spotted today that Google started displaying a message instead of an empty description. This happens when you disallow a page in robots.txt preventing Google from indexing the content of a page and therefore the description as well. The message looks like this:

Google displaying message instead of description for robots.txt disallowed

The “learn more” link points to:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

 

It is worth noting that Google display the title if they know about it, otherwise URL is displayed instead.
URL as meta title

 

 

Posted on October 19, 2012 at 1:44 pm by mm ยท Permalink
In: Google, Natural search, Robots.txt, Site architecture

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