Why does google search result show my site description in crazy symbols?...

[Blue91]

When doing a google search for PoMoFoRacing.com, I get the following... Can someone tell me why this is the case and possibly help me rectify the problem?

[James Birkett]

That's odd. It usually sets the description based on meta tags.

Are your meta tags in plaintext?

[Brandon Sheley]

turn off gzip, see if that helps

[Blue91]

I don't know. I guess I can check. I need to check the index.php file, right?

[Brandon Sheley]

I don't know. I guess I can check. I need to check the index.html file, right?

are you talking to me?
you don't have an index.html file
check your vboptions, see if gzip is enabled

[Blue91]

the index php page is the vbadvanced code. I don't see anything regarding meta tags in there. Hmm.

Turn off gzip? That helps keep my dbase size manageable though. I guess i can try it for a few days.

[Brandon Sheley]

Turn off gzip? That helps keep my dbase size manageable though. I guess i can try it for a few days.

That's just my suggestion, the strange characters look like the are being altered by gzip

ps, you might want to fix your title tag as well, you can remove the "powered by vbulletin" on your forum pages

[Blue91]

ok, disabled. Will see what happens in the next few days when the search engines refresh.

[Brandon Sheley]

ps,, what's up with these links in your cache?

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:BmttuSuTB1IJ:www.pomoforacing.com/+site:pomoforacing.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[Blue91]

Regarding the cache, I have ZERO idea.

How do I remove the "vbulletin" crap that you talked about?

[Brandon Sheley]

I would do a scan of your templates & maybe your phrases to see if you can find any of those urls
in regards to the title tag, I'm sure there is a thread posted here at the org, but I have a version here as well. (remove powered by vBulletin (http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f7/powered-vbulletin-title-tag-how-remove-23.html))

[Blue91]

From the dead, I wanted to update this thread.

I removed the vbSEO Google/Yahoo sitemap generator (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=206169)that I had installed and a few days later, the Google results were back to normal.