Question

I wonder whether you chaps can see why the Google results description for this website:

http://www.eastnorlandrovershow.com

Is showing as:

When the Meta Description says:

<meta name="Description" content="Eastnor Land Rover Show, it's time to welcome you and the best 4x4 by far to it's ancestral home, Eastnor Castle. Taking place over 25th-26th August 2012">

Thanks

Answer 1

Google does not usually use the meta tag for its description, it will usually take the some text from within the body tag.

campingpic2a. item1. Privacy Policy – Terms and Conditions

Areas of code google is taking your text from:

<img src="Resources/campingpic2a.jpeg" border=0 width=256 height=110
alt="campingpic2a" style="float:left">

<div id="item9" style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:818px; width:93px; height:15px; z-index:2; overflow:visible">
    <p class="f-lp"><span class="style3"><strong><span class="style11"><a href="privacypolicy.html"><span class="style30" style="text-decoration:underline">Privacy Policy</span></a></span></strong></span></p>
</div>
<div id="item9a" style="position:absolute; left:108px; top:818px; width:109px; height:13px; z-index:3; overflow:visible">
    <p class="f-lp"><span class="style3"><strong><span class="style11"><a href="termsandconditio.html"><span class="style30" style="text-decoration:underline">Terms and Conditions</span></a></span></strong></span></p>
</div>

The reason this is being used as google’s description is because your source only only contains footer links and the alt for your image maps main image.

Maintaining a description meta tag is important, just not for google.

If you want google to be able to read your content easily you need to put your headers in h tags, content in p tags and menus in lists.