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Google not showing correct title!

by BarryOnline
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I've started doing some SEO work for a website & I noticed that Google is not showing the page title tag in the search results, instead just the domain name is being displayed.

However, when I look at the search results for the domian in Bing, the correct title tag is shown.

I suspect Google is rewriting the title tag of the site because it's so poorly written.

Does Google do this if the title tag looks spammy? For example, if a site just uses a bunch of keywords as the title.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author nettech4
    I never noticed anything like this before. Can you tell us for which website you are seeing this effect ?

    I suspect Google is rewriting the title tag of the site because it's so poorly written.
    I do not think so because I too wrote title tag as a set of keywords (when I started my SEO) and Google displayed the same title tag in search result (first 70 characters ).
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  • Profile picture of the author Super Warrior
    Did you forgot putting a title tag earlier?
    If yes, then Google may take sometime to cache new pages.


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  • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
    Having looked into it a little further I can see that Google is changing the title.

    I don't want to post the URL as I'm working for this site at the monent but I can give more details about what I'm seeing.

    The title looks something like this...

    keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword

    Yes, it's really that bad.

    Now, Yahoo & bing both show the title like this in their search results but Google changes it to just show the domain name.

    I think Google is changing the title because it's so spammy, or maybe I'm wrong
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    • Profile picture of the author julien731
      Originally Posted by BarryOnline View Post

      The title looks something like this...

      keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword
      Anyway, what's the point in having such a title ?? And I agree with what has been said above: look like a caching delay.
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      • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
        Originally Posted by julien731 View Post

        Anyway, what's the point in having such a title ?? And I agree with what has been said above: look like a caching delay.
        This is NOT my website, it's a site that someone wants me to do some SEO work on. The title will be changed, I just wasn't sure why it was being diplayed different in Google search results.

        Google Cache was updated today (11th)& title has not yet been changed so can't be cache delay.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettech4
    I believe it is the case as Steve said. Google will not change website title tag, they just cache the website like the time when the Google spiders visited that website.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    You seem to know the problem as ny your own admission the title is very poorley written. How about just changing the title to something that is well written and optimised??
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  • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
    I've been reading more into Google re-writing titles & it seems to be something Google is doing more now -

    Extreme re-writing of page titles by Google Google SEO News and Discussion forum at WebmasterWorld

    I just could not understand this at first but it's becoming clear now.
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