Site Description and Tagline in Google Search Results

[amir]

When I search for a term or my site's name in Google, the first line under the site link is always the excerpt from my latest post. Instead of my latest post, I want it to display my site description.

Is there a setting in wordpress to do this?
I'm using Genesis with a child theme and the yoast SEO plugin.

I have provided the site description in all sections:

WP General settings: Title and description
yoast: Title and Meta
Theme settings: title and tagline

Thanks,
A

[Tom]

Hi Amir,

Since you are using Yoast WordPress: navigate to SEO > Titles & Metas > Home (tab)

Set "Title Template" to %%sitename%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%
Set "Meta description template" to your description text: eg. %%sitename%%: Amir's Site is Awesome

For your posts, under the Post Types (tab) > Posts, use these same settings for display underneath a SERP listing for one of your posts. You can make unique entries (or not) for each of your post types and pages, taxonomies, archives, etc.

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[neilgee]

Sometimes Google will display part of the post as appose to the description given depending on the search query - regardless what is input to the SEO fields

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