Comments on: Why Are My Page Titles Different In Google?

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:30:53 +0000

Hi Quickroute

I’m not sure I understand. What query is Googlebot arriving for?

By: Quickroute

Quickroute — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:50:34 +0000

if you search google for “Total Wipeout” – my ol’ blog features right up there but now i see thru statcounter, google is sending a bot to my site to query the same search about every hour or so – is this normal?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:27:20 +0000

Hi David

Yes, it seems that there are still some kinks in this particular change. But I’ve seen some excellent examples of this function working very well.

I’d say the second issue you mention is more to do with DNS issues than Google TBH, but obviously that’s a guess.

Thanks for dropping by,
Rgds
Richard

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:43:38 +0000

I saw an experiment a while back in which someone showed that if you use ridiculous titles, Google will use header tags to generate new titles.

I’ve also seen a case in which no title was defined on a page which had no text content and Google had decided to show the title of another site on the same server in the SERPs.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:16:56 +0000

Hi Ollie

Google does not always use the META description for the snippet. Depending on the keyword they may build the snippet from your body copy. I wouldn’t worry too much TBH, unless the snippets are particularly bad for you top keywords.

Hope this helps
Richard

By: Ollie

Ollie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Hi, I have been pulling out my hair on this one, trying to figure out why I was getting a different description in search results. I changed all the titles but have found that the description changes depending on what keywords I use for the same page. Maybe the pages have to be indexed again…

By: admin

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:37:23 +0000

Hi Jon

You’re quite right – this will affect webmasters everywhere, but I tend to watch Irish sites most given by nationality. I suppose that bias leads me to conclude that the many Irish sites that either publish identical titles site-wide or no titles at all is something peculiar to Ireland, when in reality it’s likely something that occurs everywhere.

I’d not depend on Google getting this right 100% of the time. I’ve already seen a couple of cases where this has gone wrong.

Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
Rgds
Richard

By: Jon Tiffany

Jon Tiffany — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:31:44 +0000

What Google are doing makes sense from a users point of view, if hundreds of pages all have the same titles, then whats the point? Surely the titles should match or be relevant to the content? Any reason why this is a problem particular to Ireland? I would of thought it would effect webmasters regardless?