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Is this a google change or not?

by awbarton222
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I don't know if this is new or something never noticed before.

When I search "medical weight loss" I get the #1 organic ranking medi weight loss clinics and the title reads like this

Medical Weight Loss Clinic - Physician-Supervised Weight Loss ...


Then if I google search just for "medi weight loss" the title changes to

Medi-Weightloss Clinics

why is this?

Is this a change in the google algo?
#change #google
  • Profile picture of the author Owen Smith
    You must have two seperate pages with different titles, or maybe im missing something is there such thing as title rotation now ? :s

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  • Profile picture of the author JonMills
    Interesting.

    Well if you look at their meta title fully it reads

    Medical Weight Loss Clinic - Physician-Supervised Weight Loss - Medi-Weightloss Clinics

    Now definately google is and has been trying to make searches more and more relevant to what the user is typing in, so its possible they are serving up what they think is best from the title, just like what they do with meta descriptions. I.e if your meta description isnt accurate they determine what is from your page and serve that up. Good chance they are doing the same with meta titles now.
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  • Profile picture of the author awbarton222
    No there is only one page, and when you click through the title is the same as the first example, with the full title..
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  • Profile picture of the author JonMills
    In the past say on Yahoo if you had your website in their directory. You could have one title for the directory and a different on in your meta title and yahoo would determine which one was more relevant. This would confuse people as they would look at the meta title and not see the directory title, yet the directory title was what was showing in yahoo. It allowed you to actually hit 2 major keyword phrases very effectively.

    Yet in this case I dont believe they are in a directory as they have both phrases in the homepage title. I believe its their attempt at targetting relevancy by selecting and serving up the portion which is most relevant
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  • Profile picture of the author JonMills
    Ah actually i think i also have another idea

    Go to the Cached url in google

    Medical Weight Loss Clinic - Physician-Supervised Weight Loss - Medi-Weightloss Clinics

    On november 14th its the 19th today that is the snapshot that google got for their homepage url. Yet if you notice, click on the HOME link and it serves up what is actually displayed as their homepage if you was to go to it through google

    Its like either they have changed their homepage since november 14th and its going by both homepages until the new one is cached or their site or it is using a form of cloaking to serve up 2 pages for one url
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  • Profile picture of the author awbarton222
    I don't think so. We haven't changed the title in awhile. "Medi Weight Loss Clinics" was never our title. It has always had a short description...

    I think google might be making a switch for branded searches..
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by awbarton222 View Post

    I don't know if this is new or something never noticed before.

    When I search "medical weight loss" I get the #1 organic ranking medi weight loss clinics and the title reads like this

    Medical Weight Loss Clinic - Physician-Supervised Weight Loss ...


    Then if I google search just for "medi weight loss" the title changes to

    Medi-Weightloss Clinics

    why is this?

    Is this a change in the google algo?
    Google does NOT want to go bankrupt! You ask them for something and they show it! WHY would you expect to see the same sites if you ask for something different?

    Maybe you think google should try to figure out what you are trying to say and do that. That is impossible. Just in english, ASP could mean anything, and what of ipod? IMAGINE the ipod becomming popular and nobody being able to pull ANYTHING for ipod up because it wasn't an actual word. medi could mean medi or medical, but medical wouldn't mean medi.

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