my title in the googles serps dnt click through to my website

Google.me · 08-30-2010, 06:30 AM

Is this a normal thing?

james7 · 08-30-2010, 06:44 AM

If your site title in google serps do not clickable then that is not useful. Check the broken links and w3c validation.

Google.me · 08-30-2010, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by james7

If your site title in google serps do not clickable then that is not useful. Check the broken links and w3c validation.

Do you know if that can effect googlebot to update certain areas of your website?

Social-Media-Marketing · 08-30-2010, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Google.me

Is this a normal thing?

When your listing in the SERPs takes you to someone else's web site, this usually means your site has been hijacked. Someone likely hacked your FTP account and installed some hijacking code on your site.

They will often install code in your .htaccess that looks at HTTP_REFERRER. If the visitor is coming from Google then they will redirect them to another site. Otherwise they show your site. This way when you type in your domain name directly everything appears to be working as it should.

Just search Google for "hijacked URL in Google SERPs" or something like that. You'll find a lot of threads in their help forums about this. It is very common.

Google.me · 08-30-2010, 05:42 PM

cheers guys thanks for that. I checked the cache version and it looks like the text version of cache.

I dnt suspect if it has been hacked but thanks for the info. At the end of the string it has /%post% at the end of the domain so it seems to be broken.

Ive added this to the robots.txt and has been taken off the serps. I"ll see if this was anything to do with the title not being changed before and after googlebot came through to see if anything changed.

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Google.me HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: new zealand Posts: 197 Thanks: 5 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts Social Networking	Re: my title in the googles serps dnt click through to my website - any clues? cheers guys thanks for that. I checked the cache version and it looks like the text version of cache. I dnt suspect if it has been hacked but thanks for the info. At the end of the string it has /%post% at the end of the domain so it seems to be broken. Ive added this to the robots.txt and has been taken off the serps. I"ll see if this was anything to do with the title not being changed before and after googlebot came through to see if anything changed.