Why does google?
 

Does anyone know why google sometimes only lists your URL and nothing else like meta or text on the page?

Not that I'm complaing because I have some high listings, just wondering why the only thing showing up is the URL and nothing else. .

That can be for a number of reasons, and there's some debate about it.

Did you look at the "similar results"? There's been a lot of duplicate page creation in the past 8 months, and just showing the url is sometimes connected to a duplicate page penalty.

That means you or someone else has a copy of your page somewhere else, and google is in the process of devalueing your page, and thus only shows the url.

But, there are other possibilities. This is just one first concern.

The thing to do is watch the listing over time. Does it dissapear, or does a full listing take it's place?

If it's the duplicate page deal then someone is stealing one of my paysites!!