Click-through drops, positions don’t
Your rank tracker shows nothing, because nothing moved. The loss sits in the gap between impressions and clicks, on every query the URL ranks for.
Meta description monitoring
Heads-up
A meta description nobody approved is costing you clicks
A plugin update, a translation overwrite, a global template tweak — and the snippet shown for the page is not the one you wrote. The page reads fine. The result in the SERP does the losing.
Heads-up severity: batched into your daily digest, because this costs clicks rather than indexation.
What it may cost you
Rankings can stay exactly where they were while the snippet stops earning the click.
One template change hits every page
A plugin that rewrites descriptions site-wide does it in a single deploy. The damage scales with how many URLs share the template.
Duplicates never show on the page
A second description tag, or one rendered outside <head>, counts as a regression even when the text is right. Looking at the page tells you nothing.
How an alert reaches you
Three steps, running every day, on something nobody looks at twice a year.
1
Every run
Baseline stored
The first crawl saves the meta description of each monitored URL as it should be. That value is what every later run is compared against.
2
Next morning
Change detected
The content of <meta name="description"> is extracted from <head> and compared, checking there is exactly one of it and that it sits where it belongs.
3
Daily digest
Alert in your digest
Heads-up findings are batched into one email, so this never buries an alert that needed you an hour ago.
You decide what counts as broken
The stored value is your desired state, not a guess. When a later run differs you get both versions side by side — and if the change was intentional, one click adopts it as the new baseline.
Severity matches the damage
This one waits for the daily digest by default, so it never competes with an alert that needed you immediately. Raise it to Danger per site if it matters more to you.
Set it once, then leave it
Pick the frequency and the user agent Wygard should send, switch on JS rendering if your pages need it, and the rest needs no attention.
What we check
One check on every monitored URL where a description is found, in Basic and on by default.
| Test | What it catches | Scope | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta description | The text changed, the tag disappeared, a second one appeared, or it rendered outside <head>. |
URL · Basic | Heads-up |
Questions about meta description monitoring
What the checks do, and what they don’t.
Does this show what Google actually displays
No. Wygard confirms what you ship; Google frequently writes its own snippet from on-page text. Use this to catch regressions on your side, and Search Console to see what ends up in the SERP.
Why is this Heads-up and not Danger
Because a drifted description costs clicks, not indexation. The severity can be raised per site if snippets carry more weight for you.
Which URLs get the check
Every monitored URL where a description tag is found in the head. Enabled by default, included in Basic.
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